Paperback
Warrior-poets wielded words as weapons in epic Icelandic tales.
Sagas of Warrior-poets
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
29 August 2002
Summary
All the Icelandic sagas portray a world well aware of the power of words—to praise, to blame, to curse, and to taunt. Yet these five stories are unusual in putting a skald, or poet, centre stage and building the plot around his travels to seek fame, his doomed love for a married woman, and his hostilities against her menfolk.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140447712 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140447717 |
| Author: | Leifur Eiricksson, Diana Whaley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
129 × 198 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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About The Author
Leifur Eiricksson
Diana Whaley is a Reader in Medieval Studies at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Translators:
- Diana Whaley
- Rory McTurk
- Katrina Attwood
- Alison Finlay
- Marianne Kalinke
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