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The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer by Jesse Byock
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.07The epic Viking Age stories that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and Wagner's Ring cycleWritten in thirteenth-century Iceland but based on ancient Norse poetry cycles, The Saga of the Volsungs combines... -
Supplementary Exercises for Old Norse - Old Icelandic by Jesse Byock 9780988176409
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988176409Author Jesse ByockFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Jules William PressPublisher... -
Old Norse - Old Icelandic: Concise Introduction to the Language of the Sagas by Jesse Byock 9781953947093
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953947093Author Jesse ByockFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Jules William PressPublisher... -
Saga of the People of Weapon's Fjord (Vápnfirðinga Saga): A New English Translation with Old Norse Text, Vocabulary, and Maps by Jesse Byock 9781953947130
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953947130Author Jesse ByockFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Jules William PressPublisher... -
The Tale of Thorstein Staff-Struck (þorsteins Þáttr stangarhöggs): A New English Translation with Old Norse Text, Vocabulary, and Notes by Jesse Byock 9781953947147
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953947147Author Jesse ByockFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Jules William PressPublisher Jules... -
Feud in the Icelandic Saga by Jesse L. Byock 9780520082595
Booksplease Price: $37.93Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society--the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the... -
The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.07Composed in medieval Iceland, Hrolf's Saga is one of the greatest of all mythic-legendary sagas, relating half-fantastical events that were said to have occurred in fifth-century Denmark. It tells of... -
Viking Age Iceland by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is... -
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson 9780140447552
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.93The most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source of Norse mythologyWritten in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda tells ancient... -
Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.41The history of medieval Europe is incomplete if it does not take Iceland into account. Jesse Byock's reassessment of medieval Iceland uses all the available sources--the medieval Icelanders'... -
Grettir's Saga by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.17'You will be made an outlaw, forced always to live in the wilds and to live alone.' A sweeping epic of the Viking Age, Grettir's Saga follows the life of the outlaw Grettir the Strong as he... -
The Saga of the Volsungs by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.36Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Saga of the Volsungs is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'They summoned their... -
Heritage and Identity: Shaping the Nations of the North J.M. Fladmark 9781873394557
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $137.27Was the shaping of nation states in Northern Europe governed by military might, or by Christian and democratic ideals? How has trade and cross-cultural exchange between Scandinavia and the British... -
The Northern Route to Kingship: Scandinavia in the First Millennium AD Dagfinn Skre 9781138831384
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $50.04This book argues that tribal Scandinavia was set on the route to kingship by the arrival in the AD 180s-90s of warrior groups that were dismissed from the Roman army after defeating the Marcomanni by... -
Iceland's 1100 Years: History of a Marginal Society by Gunnar Karlsson
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $31.26'Iceland's 1100 Years' recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among the European... -
Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga: Meanings of Time in Old Norse Literature by Heather O'Donoghue
Booksplease Price: $43.20Representative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Icelandic Family Sagas rank among some of the world's greatest literature. Here, Heather O'Donoghue... -
Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings by Tom Shippey
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20In this robust new account of the Vikings, Tom Shippey explores their mindset, and in particular their fascination with scenes of heroic death. The book recounts many of the great bravura scenes of...