[PDF] The Saga Of Thidrek Of Bern eBook

Author : Ian Cumpstey
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 2017
Category :
ISBN : 9780957612037

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A new English translation of the Scandinavian Saga of Didrik of Bern, telling the epic story of the legendary King Didrik and his warriors.

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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1624666353

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From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members—including, among others, the dragon-slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.

Author : Francis G. Gentry
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nibelungen
ISBN : 0815317859

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Richard H. Bell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0227177479

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Wagner’s Ring is one of the greatest of all artworks of Western civilization, but what is it all about? The power and mystery of Wagner’s creation was such that even he felt he stood before his work ‘as though before some puzzle’. A clue to the Ring’s greatness lies in its multiple avenues of self-disclosure and the corresponding plethora of interpretations that over the years has granted ample scope for directors, and will no doubt do so well into the distant future. One possible interpretation, which Richard Bell argues should be taken seriously, is the Ring as Christian theology. In this first of two volumes, Bell considers, among other things, how the composer’s Christian interests may be detected in the ‘forging’ of his Ring, in his appropriation of sources (whether they be myths and sagas, writers, poets, or philosophers), and in works composed around the same time, especially his Jesus of Nazareth.

Author : Harald S. N•ss
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803233171

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Volume 2.

Author : Andy Orchard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859917665

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This is a complete guide to the text and context of the most famous Old English poem. In this book, the specific roles of selcted individual characters, both major and minor, are assessed.

Author : Karin E. Olsen
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042910072

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The essays in this book examine various manifestations of monstrosity in the early literatures of England, Ireland and Scandinavia. The dates of the texts discussed range from the eighth to the thirteenth centuries and were written either in Latin or in one of the vernaculars. The present contributions shed light on the physical, mental and metaphysical qualities that characterize medieval monsters in general. How do such creatures relate to accepted physical norms? How do their behaviours deviate from established cultural practices? How can their presence in both fictional and non-fictional texts be explained either in terms of a textual tradition or as a response to actual events? Such issues are examined from literary, philological, theological, and historical points of view in order to provide a thorough, multifaceted depiction of the sub- and supernatural monsters of medieval Northwest Europe.