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Norse Romance I: The Tristan Legend

Norse Romance I: The Tristan Legend

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Series: Arthurian Archives, Book 3

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ISBN10: 1843843056
ISBN13: 9781843843054
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Aug 16 2012
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: Germanic (Other)
Text with facing translation of the Scandinavian versions of the Tristan legend.

This is the first in a set of three volumes making available for the first time critical editions and translations of important medieval Arthurian texts from Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Devoted to the Tristan legend. It contains Geitarlauf and Janual, Old Norse translations of the French lais Lanval and Chevrefeuil; Tristrams saga ok Isöndar, Brother Thomas's Old Norse translation of Thomas's Tristan, dated 1226 and commissioned by King Hákon Hákonarson the Old of Norway; Tristrams kv di, a fourteenth-century Icelandic Tristan ballad; and the Saga af Tristram ok Isodd, a fourteenth-century Icelandic version of the Old Norse Tristrams saga ok Isöndar.

The translators are: ROBERT COOK, PETER JORGENSEN, JOYCE HILL, MARIANNE E. KALINKE.

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