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Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse romances. Powerfully inspired works of Icelandic imagination, they relate intriguing, often comical tales of famous kings, difficult gods and women of great beauty, goodness or cunning. The tales plunder a wide range of earlier literature from Homer to the French romances--as in the tale of the wandering hero Arrow-Odd, which combines several older legends, or Egil and Asmund, where the story of...

Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World. This world was vividly recounted in The Book of Settlements, first compiled by the first Icelandic historians in the thirteenth century. It describes in detail individuals and daily life during the Icelandic Age of Settlement.

In diesem Band wird der Gesamtbereich der altnordischen Literatur von den Anfngen bis ca. 1600 n. Chr. mit Artikeln ber Autoren (Skalden), Werke Sammlungen (Edda), Begriffe (Strophenformen) usw. mit ausfhrlichen Literaturangaben erfasst.