The Saga Of The Volsungs
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The Saga Of The Volsungs
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language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2012-06-19
The Saga Of The Volsungs written by and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-19 with Social Science categories.
The Saga of the Volsungs is an Icelandic epic of special interest to admirers of Richard Wagner, who drew heavily upon this Norse source in writing his Ring Cycle and a primary source for writers of fantasy such as J. R. R. Tolkien and romantics such as William Morris. A trove of traditional lore, it tells of love, jealousy, vengeance, war, and the mythic deeds of the dragonslayer, Sigurd the Volsung. Byock's comprehensive introduction explores the history, legends, and myths contained in the saga and traces the development of a narrative that reaches back to the period of the great folk migrations in Europe when the Roman Empire collapsed.
V Lsunga Saga
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Author : Henry Halliday Sparling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
V Lsunga Saga written by Henry Halliday Sparling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with categories.
The Story Of The Volsungs
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: Tantor Media Incorporated
Release Date : 2014-05-10
The Story Of The Volsungs written by Anonymous and has been published by Tantor Media Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-10 with Sagas categories.
Tells the story of the Völsung clan, including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild.
Volsunga Saga The Saga Of The Volsungs
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Author : Kaaren Grimstad
language : en
Publisher: AQ-Verlag
Release Date : 2018-03-17
Volsunga Saga The Saga Of The Volsungs written by Kaaren Grimstad and has been published by AQ-Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-17 with Literary Collections categories.
Volsunga saga ranks as one of the foremost works of prose written in thirteenth-century Iceland. A highly dramatic rendering of tales from the remote Germanic past, the saga presents the Old Norse version of the story of the Volsungs, Gjukungs, and Budlungs, three families fated to destroy each other. A continental German version of this history is recounted in the well-known Middle High German epic the Nibelungenlied. The author composed the saga using earlier cycles of heroic poems, imbedding in his prose text a number of poetic stanzas and one nearly complete poem that we also have recorded in a thirteenth-century collection of poetry known as the Poetic Edda. In the nineteenth century the story was recreated as a major cultural document by Richard Wagner in his cycle of epic music dramas Der Ring des Nibelungen, inspired by his reading of Volsunga saga. This edition presents a new English translation of the saga with a diplomatic transcription of the Old Norse text, based on the only vellum manuscript Nks 1824 b, 4° from 1400, on facing pages. The introduction provides the reader with an analysis of the saga's structure and thematic content.
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language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2017-07-31
The Saga Of The Volsungs written by and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-31 with Fiction categories.
From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members—including, among others, the dragon-slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.
The Volsungs Saga
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Author : William Morris
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-12-17
The Volsungs Saga written by William Morris and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-17 with Fiction categories.
Of all the stories kept in being by the saga-tellers and left for our delight, there is none that so epitomises human experience; has within the same space so much of nature and of life; so fully the temper and genius of the Northern folk, as that of the Volsungs and Niblungs, which has in varied shapes entered into the literature of many lands. In the beginning there is no doubt that the story belonged to the common ancestral folk of all the Teutonic of Scando-Gothic peoples in the earliest days of their wanderings. Whether they came from the Hindu Kush, or originated in Northern Europe, brought it with them from Asia, or evolved it among the mountains and rivers it has taken for scenery, none know nor can; but each branch of their descendants has it in one form or another, and as the Icelanders were the very crown and flower of the northern folk, so also the story which is the peculiar heritage of that folk received in their hands its highest expression and most noble form.
Volsunga Saga
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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V Lsunga Saga
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
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The Saga Of The Volsungs
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language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-11-07
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Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, Beowulf is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings 'So the company of men led a careless life, All was well with them: until One began To encompass evil, an enemy from hell. Grendel they called this cruel spirit...' J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales. Legends from the Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's fiction.They are startling, brutal, strange pieces of writing, with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these translations.They plunge the reader into a world of treachery, quests, chivalry, trials of strength.They are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe and bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century.
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language : en
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Release Date : 2015-12-21
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The Volsunga Saga is a legendary saga written as an epic poem in the traditions of writers like Vergil and Homer, but this one is a 13th century writing from an unknown author (or authors) in Iceland, telling the story of the rise and fall of the Völsung clan (including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and destruction of the Burgundians). The origins of the material are considerably older than the 13th century, depicting events that happened in Europe during the Migration period just after the Roman empire fell in 476 A.D.