661円 This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS What the Sagas Were Part I. IN NORWAY The Baby The Tooth Thrall Olaf's Farm Olaf's Fight with Havard Foes'-fear Harald is King Harald's Battle Gyda's Saucy Message The Sea Fight King Harald's Wedding King Harald Goes West...

496円 When the Vikings invaded and conquered England, France, and Ireland, they opened a new and fascinating chapter in their history. The nature of the beset lands, the traditions and character of their peoples, and the strengths and weaknesses of the various Viking leaders made each of these three in...

403円 Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, written in England and set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. Beowulf survives in a single manuscript dated on paleographical grounds to the late tenth ...

1,780円 Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Völsung family, the Hel-ride of Brynhild and the cruelty of Atli the Hun. ...

1,780円 Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword 'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life toda...

9,450円 This book takes a comprehensive approach to security in the Nordic-Baltic region, studying how this region is affected by developments in the international system. The advent of the new millennium coincided with the return of the High North to the world stage. A number of factors have contributed...

447円 This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Book I First Adventure Concerning the Niebelungs Second Adventure Concerning Siegfried Third Adventure How Siegfried Came to Worms Fourth Adventure How Siegfried Fought with the Saxons Fifth Adventure How Siegfried First Saw Kriemhild Sixt...

403円 The Elder Eddas (also known as the Poetic Edda) is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends,...

350円 Oppveksten gav oss uendelig mye, som frihet, opplevelser og kunnskap. Og kanskje det viktigste av alt – vi lærte verdien av solidaritet. I et samfunn der konfrontasjoner mellom naboer, venner eller arbeidskollegaer ikke var uvanlig, og der klasseskillet var stort og ubarmhjertig opplevde vi et ut...

496円 "Njáls saga, Brennu-Njáls saga, is one of the sagas of Icelanders. The most prominent characters are the friends Njáll Þorgeirsson, a lawyer and a sage, and Gunnarr Hámundarson, a formidable warrior. In the course of a feud, Gunnarr is exiled and must leave Iceland but as he rides away from his h...

299円 4 works of Snorri Sturluson Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (1179-1241) This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of Snorri Sturluson. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Heimskringla or the Chronicle of the Kings of ...

421円 A fascinating look at some of the early Viking kings, such as Óláfr Tryggvason (Olaf the First), and Knut den Mektige (Canute the Great). Written by famed historian Thomas Carlyle.