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Author : Sir George Webbe Dasent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024301061
Author : George Dasent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:972797510
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Icelandic fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044965239
"The Saga of Gisli" was written in the early thirteenth century, and offers an imaginative reconstruction of a story of a man and his family who came to Iceland from Norway about 950 A.D. Gisli is outlawed for killing his brother-in-law, spends a decade hiding in remote northwest Iceland, and is caught and killed. The heart of the saga, however, is the examination of the intricate emotional bonds and the laws that attempt to regulate them, as existing in a world governed finally by inevitable fate. This ancient example of a type of literature sprung from a type of community readers can barely imagine, is one of the most memorable of all the Icelandic sagas.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1036858220
Author : George Webbe Dasent
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1022062115
This classic Icelandic saga tells the story of Gisli, a tragic outlaw hero who must avenge the death of his brother-in-law or face a lifetime of shame. Full of action and drama, this tale is a must-read for lovers of medieval literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141941899
These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Gisli is a traditional Viking-age hero who is determined to exact revenge at any cost and whose death is tragic when it comes. In contrast his nephew, Snorri, represents a new generation and acts to strengthen the new social order. Taken together these sagas reveal the richness and variety of the saga tradition.
Author : George Webbe Dasent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0371977991
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Viking Society for Northern Research University College
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Old Norse prose literature
ISBN : 0903521660
Here are three epic stories of exile and adventure: the heroes condemned to wander their lands in expiation of crimes committed in honour's name. The book includes an introduction, notes, a text summary and a chronology of early Icelandic literature.
Author : George Johnston,Peter Foote
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802062199
The Saga of Gisli was written early in the thirteenth century. It offers an imaginative reconstruction of the story of a man and his family who came to Iceland from Norway about AD 960. Soon after 960 Gisli, the central figure, was outlawed for killing his brother-in-law, and then, for thirteen years or more, he lived in hiding in remote parts of the northwest of Iceland until he was finally caught and killed by his enemies. Around this imaginative core the author has spun a web of conflicting passions - love, hare and jealousy between man and wife, brother and sister, brother-in-law - intricate emotional bonds which are here seen ironically patterned against a background of inevitable fate. Gisli, the hero, is portrayed not only as a man of strength and courage, but also a poet and dreamer, tormented in his outlawry by nightmarish visions which seem gradualy to sap his will to resist. The author's probing into the emotional depths of his characters, the superbly effective architecture of his narrative leading to the central climax, his sense of the dramatic, and his cool, compelling style all combine to make this one of the most memorable of all the Icelandic sagas.
Author : Allen French
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465585288
Author : Velma Bourgeois Richmond
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476691633
This book examines translations of Icelandic sagas and the Victorian and Edwardian children's literature they inspired, some of which are canonical while others are forgotten. It covers authors like William Morris, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Gray, Walter Scott, H. Rider Haggard, W.H. Auden, John Greenleef Whittier and more. In lavish volumes and modest schoolbooks, British and American writers claimed Nordic heritage and explored Nordic traditions. The sagas offered a rich and wide-ranging source for these authors: Volsunga saga's Sigurd the dragon slayer; King Olaf's saga of opposing Nordic Gods and Christianity; Frithiof's model of headstrong youth beset with unfair opposition and lost love. Grettir and Njal tell of men who accepted fate and met conflict and enemies unflinchingly; Aslaug, Gudrida, Hallberga and Hervar exerted remarkable influence; and Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky provided Americans with a Nordic heritage of discovery.
Author : Stefán Einarsson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421435466
Originally published in 1957. Stefán Einarsson covers almost a thousand years of Icelandic literature in tracing the influence of the sagas and eddic poems. The book begins with background on Icelandic literature, outlining its literary roots in Scandinavia. Following this, Einarsson provides a thorough survey of Icelandic literature through the 1950s.
Author : George Webbe Dasent
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 066689387X
Excerpt from The Story of the "Gisli the Outlaw" From the Icelandic Well, now, this is a strange thing Here Harold Fairhair has come back, and has grown young again a second time but he was old and gray when we last saw him. What can it all mean? Can he have any son so like him that we cannot tell the one from the other, save that one is young and the other old, and that this man gives us back with goodwill our freeholds and heritages which his sire took from us with overbearing might?' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Jesse L. Byock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0520069544
Gift of Joan Wall. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-248) and index. * glr 20090610.
Author : Sjón
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374709938
Already celebrated far beyond his native Iceland, the novels of Sjón arrive on waves of praise from writers, critics, and readers worldwide. Sjón has won countless international awards and earned ringing comparisons to Borges, Calvino, and Iceland's other literary superstar, the Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness. The Whispering Muse is his masterpiece so far. The year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilization, has had the extraordinary good fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea. Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, disguised as the second mate. Every evening after dinner he entrances his fellow travelers with the tale of how he sailed with the fabled vessel the Argo on its quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. What unfolds is a slender but masterful, brilliant, and always entertaining novel that ranges deftly from the comic to the mythic as it weaves together tales of antiquity with the modern world in a voice so singular as to seem possessed.
