Gods and giants bestride these ancient tales, in which warrior queens and noble heroes battle with elves, dwarves, and fearsome monsters. Spanning the dawn of the world's creation to its fiery destruction, these gripping Norse legends chronicle the triumphs and tragedies of a lost era. Resounding with a poetic instinct for the picturesque, the dramatic, and the human, they form vivid portraits of the characters' personalities. They also depict the comic and disastrous results of ambition, passion, and destiny. The wellspring of modern knowledge of Norse mythology, these sagas preserved the Vikings' narrative style from an invading European influence. Iceland's great literary genius, Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), combined oral traditions, genealogical records, and old songs to immortalize his country's glorious past. Edda means "poetic art," and Sturluson's guidebook for Icelandic poets has been a timeless inspiration for generations of writers around the world, including Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien. Reprint of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, 1916 edition.

ÖVRIGT:
Mediatyp: Bok
Bandtyp: Häftad
Författare: Snorri Sturluson
Förlag: Dover Publications
Språk: Engelska
Omfång: 266 sidor
Mått (bxhxd): 127x203x17 mm
Vikt: 295 gram
Illustrerad: Nej

Streckkod: 9780486451510
SKU: 857258