Sagas of warrior-poets / with an introduction and notes by Diana Whaley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whaley, Diana.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

World of the sagas

Penguin classics

Language:

English

Icelandic

Subjects (All):

Sagas--Translations into English.

Sagas.

Old Norse literature--Translations into English.

Old Norse literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

liv, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Penguin, 2002.

Language Note:

Translated from the Icelandic.

Summary:

Lovers, poets, and dragon-slaying heroes populate the gripping Icelandic sagas included in this collection. Part of Penguin Classics' new eight-volume Icelandic Saga collection, this volume includes stories that were composed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and are set more than two hundred years earlier-a time when the old Viking ethos of honor and heroic adventure merged with new ideas of romantic infatuation. Set in the farmsteads of Viking-age Iceland, each of these sagas features poet heroes, complex love triangles, and travels to foreign lands. In her informative introduction, Diana Whaley highlights these important themes and reveals how the authors used these tales to entertain, to preserve and shape traditions about the past, and to explore vital social issues.

Contents:

Kormak's saga

The saga of Halfred troublesome-poet

The Saga of Gunnlaug serpent-tongue

The Saga of Bjorn, champion of the Hitardal people

Viglund's saga.

Notes:

Originally published in: The complete sagas of Icelanders (including 49 tales), I and II / edited by Vidar Hreinsson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0140447717

OCLC:

51025077