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Die Karlamagnús-Saga I und ihre altfranzösische Vorlage
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 105.00The 13th century Old Norse Karlamagnús-Saga, a monumental biography of Charlemagne from translated and adapted French Caroline epics such as the Chanson de Roland, is a fascinating example of intensive reception at a distance. Its first branch appears to pre-empt the whole in a compressed form, and has thus been puzzling scholars for more than a century.... more...
The Saga of the Volsungs
University of California Press 2012; US$ 19.95The 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... more...
Fagrskinna, a catalogue of the Kings of Norway
BRILL 2004; US$ 155.00This work includes the first complete translation of a 13th-century vernacular history of Norway from the ninth to the 12th centuries. This translation preserves many of the metrical features of this complex verse form, which are explained in the commentary. more...
Schriften des Herzens
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 26.08Hauptbeschreibung Der rege und spannungsreiche Briefwechsel zwischen der Dichterin Anna Louisa Karsch und dem Halberstädter Dichter und ihrem Förderer Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim stellt ein außergewöhnliches Zeugnis eines empfindsamen Freundschaftsentwurfs dar. Mit dem Fokus auf die frühen Jahre der Korrespondenz untersucht Jon Helgason diese als... more...
Eyrbyggja Saga
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableAn Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society. more...
The Vinland Sagas
Penguin Books Ltd 1973; Not AvailableOne of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Together, the direct, forceful twelfth-century Graenlendinga Saga and the more polished and scholarly Eirik?s Saga, written some hundred years later, recount how Eirik the... more...
Reiseberichte und Romanzen
De Gruyter 1997; US$ 168.00What we see is invariably determined by the eye of the beholder. Travellers and readers interpret the cultural text of 'foreign parts' in relation to their own horizons and individual interests. The present study looks at examples of the discursive appropriation of travel destinations and foreign literature. The approach is geared to aiding inquiry... more...
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