Description
In A.D. 986, Earl Hakon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjorunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old Norse world. Two centuries later their accounts of the battle became the basis for one of the liveliest of the Icelandic sagas, with special emphasis on the doings of the Jomsvikings, the famed members of a warrior community that feared no one and dared all. In Lee M. Hollander's faithful translation, all of the unknown twelfth-century author's narrative genius and flair for dramatic situation and pungent characterization is preserved.
One of the liveliest of the Icelandic sagas with special emphasis on the doings of the Jomsvikings, the famed members of a warrior community that feared no one and dared all.
About the Author
Lee M. Hollander was professor emeritus of Germanic languages at the University of Texas at Austin and an authority in Nordic language and literature. His translations of the best prose and poetry of the Old North among them Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway and The Poetic Edda have also appeared under the imprint of the University of Texas Press.
Book Information
ISBN 9780292776234
Author Lee M. Hollander
Format Paperback
Page Count 116
Imprint University of Texas Press
Publisher University of Texas Press
Dimensions(mm) 191mm * 133mm * 15mm
