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...
Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected her...
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.
In diesem Band wird der Gesamtbereich der altnordischen Literatur von den Anfngen bis ca. 1600 n. Chr. mit Artikeln ber Autoren (Skalden), Werke Samml...
