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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Saga library (Volume I): The Story of Howard The Halt. The Story of The Banded Men. The Story of Hen Thorir. done into English out of the Icelandi

The Saga library (Volume I): The Story of Howard The Halt. The Story of The Banded Men. The Story of Hen Thorir. done into English out of the Icelandi

Morris, William

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral European History

ISBN10: 9353706335
ISBN13: 9789353706333
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Three Icelandic sagas, sharp as winter air. Feud, fate, and hard law. In The Saga Library (Volume I), William Morris turns a medieval Iceland setting into immediate, readable drama: The Story of Howard the Halt, The Story of the Banded Men, and The Story of Hen Thorir, done into English out of the Icelandic in a resonant public domain translation. This icelandic saga anthology is a classic saga collection of 13th century sagas where everyday lives are bound to reputation, kinship, and the reach of the thing. Disputes move through courts as much as battlefields, tracing how early law held a hard-won peace. Expect viking age feuds, honour and revenge tales, and icelandic family conflicts rendered in the direct, spare power of old norse prose classics. More than raw adventure, the sagas are among medieval Europe's great narrative achievements: coolly observed, morally complex, and built for rereading. Morris's Victorian ear preserves the cadence of saga speech while opening these narratives to modern readers, from classic literature students meeting the tradition for the first time to collectors seeking foundational northern texts. For norse mythology readers, and for edda and saga fans who want the human scale behind the gods, these stories offer the lived ethics of settlement-age communities - pride, obligation, and the price of a name. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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