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Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian AndersenISBN 1853261009 (1-85326-100-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andersen's Fairy Tales'Book summary:This collection of over forty of Andersen's most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes and The Little Match Girl. [via]
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Beowulf: An Illustrated Editionby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0393320979 (0-393-32097-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition'Book summary:In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our imagination has been less secure. In the introduction to his translation, Seamus Heaney argues that Beowulf's role as a required text for many English students obscured its mysteries and "mythic potency." Now, thanks to the Irish poet's marvelous recreation (in both senses of the word) under Alfred David's watch, this dark, doom-ridden work gets its day in the sun.
There are endless pleasures in Heaney's analysis, but readers should head straight for the poem and then to the prose. (Some will also take advantage of the dual-language edition and do some linguistic teasing out of their own.) The epic's outlines seem simple, depicting Beowulf's three key battles with the scaliest brutes in all of art: Grendel, Grendel's mother (who's in a suitably monstrous snit after her son's dismemberment and death), and then, 50 years later, a gold-hoarding dragon "threatening the night sky / with streamers of fire." Along the way, however, we are treated to flashes back and forward and to a world view in which a thane's allegiance to his lord and to God is absolute. In the first fight, the man from Geatland must travel to Denmark to take on the "shadow-stalker" terrorizing Heorot Hall. Here Beowulf and company set sail:
Men climbed eagerly up the gangplank,
After a fearsome night victory over march-haunting and heath-marauding Grendel, our high-born hero is suitably strewn with gold and praise, the queen declaring: "Your sway is wide as the wind's home, / as the sea around cliffs." Few will disagree. And remember, Beowulf has two more trials to undergo.
sand churned in the surf, warriors loaded
a cargo of weapons, shining war-gear
in the vessel's hold, then heaved out,
away with a will in their wood-wreathed ship.
Over the waves, with the wind behind her
and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird...Heaney claims that when he began his translation it all too often seemed "like trying to bring down a megalith with a toy hammer." The poem's challenges are many: its strong four-stress line, heavy alliteration, and profusion of kennings could have been daunting. (The sea is, among other things, "the whale-road," the sun is "the world's candle," and Beowulf's third opponent is a "vile sky-winger." When it came to over-the-top compound phrases, the temptations must have been endless, but for the most part, Heaney smiles, he "called a sword a sword.") Yet there are few signs of effort in the poet's Englishing. Heaney varies his lines with ease, offering up stirring dialogue, action, and description while not stinting on the epic's mix of fate and fear. After Grendel's misbegotten mother comes to call, the king's evocation of her haunted home may strike dread into the hearts of men and beasts, but it's a gift to the reader:
A few miles from here
In Heaney's hands, the poem's apparent archaisms and Anglo-Saxon attitudes--its formality, blood-feuds, and insane courage--turn the art of an ancient island nation into world literature. --Kerry Fried [via]
a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch
above a mere; the overhanging bank
is a maze of tree-roots mirrored in its surface.
At night there, something uncanny happens:
the water burns. And the mere bottom
has never been sounded by the sons of men.
On its bank, the heather-stepper halts:
the hart in flight from pursuing hounds
will turn to face them with firm-set horns
and die in the wood rather than dive
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Beowulfby GummereISBN 1420921584 (1-4209-2158-4)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:Dating from between the 8th and 11th century Beowulf is the oldest known English epic poem. Beowulf is a narrative poem about the kings and heroes of Denmark and Geatland. It is a story of mythic creatures and medieval battles between men and monsters. Follow the adventures of Beowulf, the story's title character, as he battles the Grendel, the Grendel's mother, and a dragon. As you read imagine yourself in one of the taverns or royal courts of Old England hearing the great epic Beowulf, for the first time as you might well have then. Passed down by oral tradition Beowulf's author is to this day unknown. The original manuscript was written in Anglo-Saxon or Old English. Presented here is the faithful translation of Francis B. Gummere. [via]
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Beowulfby John McNamara, AnonymousISBN 1593082665 (1-59308-266-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:[via]Beowulf, by Anonymous, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Widely regarded as the first true masterpiece of English literature, Beowulf describes the thrilling adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. Its lyric intensity and imaginative vitality are unparalleled, and the poem has greatly influenced many important modern novelists and poets, most notably J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings.
Part history and part mythology, Beowulf opens in the court of the Danish king where a horrible demon named Grendel devours men in their sleep every night. The hero Beowulf arrives and kills the monster, but joy turns to horror when Grendels mother attacks the hall to avenge the death of her son. Ultimately triumphant, Beowulf becomes king himself and rules peacefully for fifty years until, one dark day, a foe more powerful than any he has yet faced is arousedan ancient dragon guarding a horde of treasure. Once again, Beowulf must summon all his strength and courage to face the beast, but this time victory exacts a terrible price.
New translation by John McNamara. Features an original map and genealogy chart.
John McNamara is Professor of English at the University of Houston, where he teaches the early languages and literatures of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with a special focus on their oral traditions. He is the co-editor of Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs.
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Beowulfby Roy LiuzzaISBN 1551111896 (1-55111-189-6)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The classic story of Beowulf, hero and dragon-slayer, appears here in a new translation accompanied by genealogical charts, historical summaries, and a glossary of proper names. These and other documents sketching some of the cultural forces behind the poem's final creation will help readers see Beowulf as an exploration of the politics of kingship and the psychology of heroism, and as an early English meditation on the bridges and chasms between the pagan past and the Christian present. A generous sample of other modern versions of Beowulf sheds light on the process of translating the poem. [via]
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Beowulf: A Verse Translationby Daniel Donoghue, Seamus HeaneyISBN 0393975800 (0-393-97580-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: A Verse Translation'Book summary:Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaneys translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review).
The translation that "rides boldly through the reefs of scholarship" (The Observer) is combined with first-rate annotation. No reading knowledge of Old English is assumed. Heaneys clear and insightful introduction to Beowulf provides students with an understanding of both the poems history in the canon and Heaneys own translation process. [via]More editions of Beowulf: A Verse Translation:
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Beowulf: Letterpress Editionby Bertha RogersISBN 0913559598 (0-913559-59-8)
Softcover, Birch Brook Pr
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Berlitz Danish-English DictionaryISBN 2831509947 (2-8315-0994-7)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
Find This BookBook summary:Fully bilingual, the Berlitz Bilingual Dictionaries are one of the few truly pocket-size dictionaries for travelers and are an excellent companion to Berlitz Phrase Books, Cassette Packs, and Pocket Guides.
Each edition provides:
-- Over 12,000 entries
-- An expanded menu reader, with new terms and dishes, to help travelers feel more comfortable in foreign restaurants
-- Basic conversational phrases
-- Mini-grammar section with irregular verbs [via]More editions of Berlitz Danish-English Dictionary:
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The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preservedby P.V. Glob, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. BarberISBN 1590170903 (1-59017-090-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved'Book summary:One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that of a two-thousand-year-old man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bog as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility.
Written in the guise of a scientific detective story, this classic of archaeological history--a best-seller when it was published in England but out of print for many years--is a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age.
Includes 76 black-and-white photographs. [via]More editions of The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved:
The Classic Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Talesby Sheila Black, H.C. AndersenISBN 0894719815 (0-89471-981-5)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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The Complete Fairy Talesby H.C. AndersenISBN 1853268992 (1-85326-899-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales'Book summary:Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872. For 150 years his stories have been delighting both adults and children. Packed with a light-hearted whimsy combined with a mature wisdom they are as entrancing as ever. Here are all of Andersen's 168 tales, and among the favourites are 'The Red Shoes', 'The Mermaid', 'The Real Princess', 'The Emperor's New Clothes', The Tinder Box' and of course 'The Ugly Duckling'. [via]
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D'Aulaires' Book Of Norse Mythsby Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, Michael ChabonISBN 159017125X (1-59017-125-X)
Hardcover, Random House Distribution childrens
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East O' the Sun and West O' the Moonby George Webbe Dasent, George Dasent, P.J. LynchISBN 1564020495 (1-56402-049-5)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon'Book summary:"This wondrous tale is brilliantly matched by Lynch's elegant yet accessible watercolors. . . .The best edition now available. Bravo!" KIRKUS REVIEWS (pointered review)
A beloved Norwegian folktale, EAST O' THE SUN AND WEST O' THE MOON is the romantic story of a bewitched prince and the determined lassie who loves him. It has everything a classic epic tale should have: rags and riches, hags and heroism, magic and mystery, a curse and a quest, wicked trolls, a shape-shifting bear, and finally, a happy ending. Kate Greenaway Medalist P.J. Lynch has created a luminous backdrop worthy of this grand adventure, transporting readers to a world of fantasy and imagination. [via]More editions of East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon:
Eddaby Anthony Faulkes, Snorri SturlusonISBN 0460014994 (0-460-01499-4)
Softcover, Dent
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Eddaby Snorri Sturluson, Anthony FaulkesISBN 0460876163 (0-460-87616-3)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edda'Book summary:But the king's heart swells, bulging with courage in battle, where heroes sink down...
Over a period of twenty years Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose Edda as a textbook for young poets who wished to praise kings. His work surveys the content, style and metres of traditional Viking poetry and includes a lengthy poem of Snorrie's own, praising the king of Norway. Ironically, Snorri was killed in his own cellar in Iceland in 1241 on the instigation of the king of Norway, as a result of political intrigue.
The Edda contains the most extensive account of Norse myths and legends that has survived from the Middle Ages as well as the popular stories of Odin winning back the mead of poetic inspiration and Thor fishing for the Midgard serpent. [via]
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Egil's Sagaby John Lucas, Snorri Sturluson, Christine FellISBN 0460112511 (0-460-11251-1)
Softcover, Dent
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Egil's Saga'Book summary:Demon, killer and drunkard, poet, lawyer and farmer: Egil is on eof the most individual and paradoxical characters to emerge from the Icelandic sagas. [via]
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Egil's Sagaby Christine Fell, John LucasISBN 0460872656 (0-460-87265-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Egil's Sagaby Paul Edwards, Hermann PalssonISBN 0140443215 (0-14-044321-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Egil's Sagaby Snorri Sturluson, Anonymous, Bernard Scudder, Svanhildur OskarsdottirISBN 0140447709 (0-14-044770-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Egil's Saga'Book summary:[via]Egils Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a psychologically ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. This Icelandic saga recounts Egils progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to defend his honor in a running feud with the Norwegian king Erik Bloodaxe and fight for the English king Athelstan in his battles against Scotland. Exploring issues as diverse as the question of loyalty, the power of poetry, and the relationship between two brothers who love the same woman, Egils Saga is a fascinating depiction of a deeply human character.
- New translation taken from the acclaimed The Sagas of Icelanders
- Includes introduction, further reading, explanatory notes, genealogical table, maps, chronology, glossary, and an index of characters
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Engelsk-Dansk, Dansk-Engelsk Ordbok/Danish-English, English-Danish DictionaryISBN 2831509467 (2-8315-0946-7)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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Fairy Talesby H.C. Andersen, Marte Hvam Hult, Jack David ZipesISBN 1593082606 (1-59308-260-6)
Softcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:[via]Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Who has not laughed at the emperors new clothes, thrilled to the song of the nightingale, or sympathized with the ugly duckling? In the 170 years since they first began to appear, Hans Christian Andersens Fairy Tales have entranced and bewitched millions of readers, adults and children alike.
Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud. Second, he set his tales in his own land and time, giving rise to his loving descriptions of the Danish countryside. In contrast to such folklorists as the Brothers Grimm, Andersons tales are grounded in the real and often focus on the significance of small or overlooked things.
Here are all of Andersens collected tales, manysuch as The Little Mermaid, The Red Shoes, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier still popular through modern adaptations, and others, including The Flying Trunk and The Most Incredible Thing, well worth rediscovering.Jack Zipes is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. A specialist in folklore and fairy tales, he has authored numerous books of criticism over the last thirty years and edited several major anthologies, including the Norton Anthology of Childrens Literature (2005).Marte Hvam Hult holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian languages and literatures from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and a forthcoming translation of Asbjørnsens Huldreeventyr. 
Hanna's Daughterby Marianne FredrikssonISBN 156895817X (1-56895-817-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hanna's Daughter'Book summary:Sweeping through one hundred years of Scandinavian history, this luminous story follows three generations of Swedish women--a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter--whose lives are linked through a century of great love and great loss. Resonating with truth and revelation, this moving novel deftly explores the often difficult but enduring ties between mothers and daughters, the sacrifices, compromises, and rewards in the relationships between men and women, and the patterns of emotion that repeat themselves through generations. If you have ever wanted to connect with the past, or rediscover family, Hanna's Daughters will strike a chord in your heart. . . . [via]
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Hans Christian Andersen: Cuentos Fantasticos y De Animales, Cuentos Humoristicos y Sentimentales, La Sirenita, El Traje Nuevo Del Emperador / Fantastic and Animal Stories, Homby H. C. AndersenISBN 158567737X (1-58567-737-X)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Christian Andersen: Cuentos Fantasticos y De Animales, Cuentos Humoristicos y Sentimentales, La Sirenita, El Traje Nuevo Del Emperador / Fantastic and Animal Stories, Hom'Book summary:On the 200th anniversary of his birth, a new biography of the much-loved children's author, Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper cut-out artist, a neurotic hypochondriac, and a man with intense but frustrated sexual desires. This startling and immensely readable, definitive new biography by Danish scholar Jens Andersen is essential to a full understanding of the man whose writing has influenced the lives of readers young and old for centuries. Jens Andersen sheds brilliant new light on Hans Christian Andersen's writings and on the writer whose own life had many aspects of the fairytale. Like some of the memorable characters he created, Andersen grew up in miserable and impoverished circumstances. He later propagated myths about his life and family, but this new biography uncovers much about this man that has never been revealed before. [via]
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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian Andersen, William King, Leon BaxterISBN 1561387657 (1-56138-765-7)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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A History of the Vikingsby Gwyn JonesISBN 0192801341 (0-19-280134-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Vikings'Book summary:The history of the Viking peoples and kingdoms, from their half-glimpsed origins and legendary prehistory to the triumphs of Canute, is as exciting a story as has ever been told. Professor Jones's classic work incorporates all the latest research. [via]
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The KalevalaISBN 1404352457 (1-4043-5245-7)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Kalevalaby Elias Lonnrot, Keith BosleyISBN 019283570X (0-19-283570-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Kalevala : Epic of the Finnish Peopleby Eino FribergISBN 9511101374 (951-1-10137-4)
Hardcover, Egmont Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kalevala : Epic of the Finnish People'Book summary:National Epic of Finland. Epic narrative poetry, originally published in Finnish in 1849. [via]
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Kalevala: The Land of the Heroesby Michael Branch, W.F. KirbyISBN 0485120488 (0-485-12048-8)
Softcover, Athlone Press
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Kristin Lavransdatterby Sigrid Undset, Tiina NunnallyISBN 0141180412 (0-14-118041-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kristin Lavransdatter'Book summary:[via]In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnallys award-winning definitive translation brings this remarkable work to life with clarity and lyrical beauty.
As a young girl, Kristin is deeply devoted to her father, a kind and courageous man. But when as a student in a convent school she meets the charming and impetuous Erlend Nikulaussøn, she defies her parents in pursuit of her own desires. Her saga continues through her marriage to Erlend, their tumultuous life together raising seven sons as Erlend seeks to strengthen his political influence, and finally their estrangement as the world around them tumbles into uncertainty.
With its captivating heroine and emotional potency, Kristin Lavransdatter is the masterwork of Norways most beloved authorone of the twentieth centurys most prodigious and engaged literary mindsand, in Nunnallys exquisite translation, a story that continues to enthrall.
- A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with French flaps and rough front
- Includes a new introduction by Scandinavian literature expert Brad Leithauser especially commissioned for this edition
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Softcover, Random House Inc - Kristin Lavransdatter: ISBN 0394752996 (0-394-75299-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Kristin Lavransdatter: ISBN 0394432622 (0-394-43262-2)
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Kristin Lavransdatter IIby Sigrid Undset, Tiina NunnallyISBN 0141181281 (0-14-118128-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Lonely Planet Scandinavian & Baltic Europeby Glenda Bendure, Ned Friary, Graeme Cornwallis, Clay Lucas, Steve KokkerISBN 1864501561 (1-86450-156-1)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonely Planet Scandinavian & Baltic Europe'Book summary:Covers Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Kaliningrad, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden. This comprehensive guide to independent travel in the countries of the North Atlantic includes thorough coverage of each country, details on outdoor activities from skiing in Norway to hiking in Lapland and tips on border crossing and transport. Includes a 10-language guide and a special section on St Petersburg. [via]
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Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Undergroundby Michael Moynihan, Didrik SoderlindISBN 0922915946 (0-922915-94-6)
Softcover, Feral House
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Mahadevi Sancayitaby Elias Lonnrot, Francis P. MagounISBN 0674500105 (0-674-50010-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mahadevi Sancayita'Book summary:La primera publicación corresponde al año 1835 y contenía un total de 5.052 versos, congregados en 32 poemas. La reproducción final corresponde a 1849, cuando se publicó en toda su extensión actual de 23.000 versos y 50 poemas.
En su labor meticulosa de recopilación y recomposición, Elias Lönnrot logró acopiar versos provenientes de diferentes fuentes, tanto subjetivas como territoriales. Para ello recurrió a trovadores, narradores, o al examen de la tradición oral en diversas regiones de Finlandia, especialmente en la zona de Carelia.
Lönnrot, en su trabajo de recopilación, acopló y relacionó diferentes testimonios e historias para dotar a la obra de una mejor estructura narrativa. Al mismo tiempo disminuyó la cantidad de personajes y concentró los lugares donde se desarrollan los sucesos. De esta manera logró una mayor coherencia y concreción de esta obra cumbre de la mitología y folclore de Finlandia.
La leyenda, el mito y la evocación poética se enlazan perfectamente en el Kalevala, erigiendo un mundo habitado por héroes de carne y hueso, que oscilan entre lo humano, lo divino y lo esperpéntico. Por eso los actos de los personajes del Kalevala están plagados de extravagancias y deslices humanos. [via] -
Medieval Scandinavia: From Conversion to Reformation, Circa 800-1500by Birgit Sawyer, P. H. SawyerISBN 0816617392 (0-8166-1739-2)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snowby Peter HoegISBN 1860461670 (1-86046-167-0)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow'Book summary:A little boy falls off a roof and is killed. Smilla Jaspersen, his neighbour, suspects it is not an accident: she has seen his footsteps in the snow, and, having been brought up by her mother, a Greenlander, she has a feeling for snow. [via]
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow: The Making of a Filmby Karin Trolle, Peter Heg, Bille AugustISBN 1860463711 (1-86046-371-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow: The Making of a Film'Book summary:This volume gives an insight into the making of the film "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow". It contains interviews with the director, Bille August, and the cast: Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Harris and Jim Broadbent, and also with the author himself, Peter Hoeg There are approximately 150 stills from the shooting of the film, as well as drawings by the set decorator, storyboard sketches, call sheets and Peter Hoeg's hand-written drafts of the novel, showing how the complex character of Miss Smilla came into being on the page and on the screen. [via]
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Njal's SagaISBN 1853267856 (1-85326-785-6)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
Find This BookBook summary:Njal's Saga is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's greatest prose works. Written c.1280, about events a couple of centuries earlier, it is divided into three parts: the first recounts the touching friendship between noble Gunnar and the statesman Njal, together with the fatal enmity between their wives. The second part works out the central tragedy of the saga, while the third describes the retribution wrought by Flosi and Kari. The saga is remarkable not only for the details of everyday life - the farming, the feasting and the charcoal-burning - but also for the social structure of the society in which that life took place - the Althing or Parliament, the lawmaking and the lawgiving. The grandeur of the narrative and the beauty and distinction of the characters mark Njal's Saga as an essential text for all who love adventure and great literature. [via]
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Njal's Sagaby Robert CookISBN 0140447695 (0-14-044769-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Njal's Saga'Book summary:Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. It is populated by memorable and complex characters like Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a powerful warrior with an aversion to killing, and the not-so-villainous Mord Valgardsson. Full of dreams, strange prophecies, violent power struggles, and fragile peace agreements, Njal's Saga tells the compelling story of a fifty-year blood feud that, despite its distance from us in time and place, is driven by passions familiar to us all. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction, chronology, index of characters, plot summary, explanatory notes, maps, and suggestions for further reading.[via]More editions of Njal's Saga:
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Njals Sagaby Hermann Palsson, Magnus MagnussoISBN 0140441034 (0-14-044103-4)
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Norse Mythsby Kevin Crossley-HollandISBN 0394748468 (0-394-74846-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Norse Myths'Book summary:The Scandinavian myths form a linked chain of stories, creating a mighty, fantastical world teeming with gods and goddesses, master-smiths and magicians. Battles between gods and giants exist alongside unexpected love matches until the final days of destruction dawn, with their promise of rebirth. Using his talents as poet, translator and author, Kevin Crossley-Holland brings the myths alive. He reveals a dynamic culture in which is reflected the Norseman's spirit and confidence, his ruthlessness and cruelty, arrogance and generosity. [via]
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The Poetic Eddaby Carolyne LarringtonISBN 0192839462 (0-19-283946-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetic Edda'Book summary:The collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as the "Poetic Edda" contains the greater narratives of the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods. Since the rediscovery of the "Poetic Edda" in the 17th century, its poetry has fascinated artists as diverse as Thomas Gray, Richard Wagner, and Jorge Luis Borges. This complete translation includes a scholarly introduction, notes, a genealogy of the gods and giants, and an index of names. [via]
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The Poetic Eddaby Lee Milton Hollander, Lee M. HollanderISBN 0292764995 (0-292-76499-5)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetic Edda'Book summary:The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early Christian times.
Collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, The Poetic Edda was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars. Even then its value as poetry, as a source of historical information, and as a collection of entertaining stories was recognized. This meticulous translation succeeds in reproducing the verse patterns, the rhythm, the mood, and the dignity of the original in a revision that Scandinavian Studies says "may well grace anyone's bookshelf."
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The Poetic Eddaby Ursula DronkeISBN 0198114974 (0-19-811497-4)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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The Prose Eddaby Snorri SturlusonISBN 0140447555 (0-14-044755-5)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prose Edda'Book summary:Prose Edda is a work without predecessor or parallel. Snorri Sturluson feared that the traditional techniques of Norse poetics, the pagan kennings, and the allusions to mythology would be forgotten with the introduction of new verse forms from Europe. Prose Edda was designed as a handbook for poets to compose in the style of the skalds of the Viking ages. It is an exposition of the rule of poetic diction with many examples, applications, and retellings of myths and legends. The present selection includes the whole of Gylfaginning (The deluding of Gylfi)--a guide to mythology that forms one of the great storybooks of the Middle Ages--and the longer heroic tales and legends of Skáldskaparmál (Poetic diction). Snorri Sturluson was a master storyteller, and this translation in modern idiom of the inimitable tales of the gods and heroes of the Scandinavian peoples brings them to life again.[via] -
Prose Edda of Snorri Sturlusonby Jean I. YoungISBN 0520012313 (0-520-01231-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson'Book summary:The stirring, bloody, and tragic saga that inspired such artists as Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien
Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman heroes and indomitable warrior queens. Its gods live with the tragic knowledge of their own impending destruction in the cataclysmic battle of Ragnarok. Its time scale spans the eons from the worlds creation to its violent end. This robust new translation captures the magisterial sweep and startling psychological complexity of the Old Icelandic original. [via]More editions of Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson:
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Prose Edda of Snorri Sturlusonby Snorri Sturlson, Jean Young, Snorri SturlusonISBN 0520012321 (0-520-01232-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson'Book summary:The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson: Written by Iceland's most versatile literary genius, Snorri was born in western Iceland in 1179, the son of a great chieftain, and early in his career won a reputation at home and in Norway for his poetic talents. Later he traveled to Norway and wrote the lives of the kings: the Helmskringla Saga, Egil's Saga and St. Olaf's Saga, a work unsurpassed in Icelandic prose. The Prose Edda - edda means "the poetic art" - was designed as a handbook for poets to compose in the style of the skalds of the Viking ages. Snorri feared that the traditional techniques, the pagan kennings, and the allusions to mythology would be forgotten with the introduction of new verse forms from Europe [via]
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Rick Steves' 2001 Scandinaviaby Rick StevesISBN 1566912350 (1-56691-235-0)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rick Steves' 2001 Scandinavia'Book summary:-- Covers Copenhagen, Oslo, the fjords, Stockholm, and Helsinki [via]
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Rick Steves' 2003 Scandinaviaby Rick StevesISBN 1566914590 (1-56691-459-0)
Softcover, Pgw
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Rick Steves' 2006 Scandinaviaby Rick StevesISBN 1566917336 (1-56691-733-6)
Softcover, Avalon Travel Pub
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Rick Steves' Scandinavia 2000by Rick StevesISBN 1562615017 (1-56261-501-7)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Rick Steves' Scandinavia 2005by Rick StevesISBN 1566916844 (1-56691-684-4)
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The Rough Guide to ScandinaviaISBN 1858282365 (1-85828-236-5)
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The Rough Guide to Scandinaviaby Jules Brown, James Procter, Lone Mouritsen, Neil Roland, Mick Sinclair, S. Andrew SpoonerISBN 1843530538 (1-84353-053-8)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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The Rough Guide to Scandinaviaby Phil Lee, Mick Sinclair, Jules Brown, Paul Karr, James Procter, S. Andrew Spooner, Neil RolandISBN 1858285178 (1-85828-517-8)
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The Sagas of Icelanders : A Selectionby Jane Smiley, Ornolfur ThorssonISBN 0670889903 (0-670-88990-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sagas of Icelanders : A Selection'Book summary:Commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Leif Eriksson's pioneering voyage to the New World, Viking will proudly publish a major new translation of the very greatest of the Icelanders' Sagas. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set during the Viking Age, these epic stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norsemen and Norsewomen who first settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west--to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America.
The Sagas of Icelanders collects a dozen of the most outstanding Sagas, including the celebrated "Vinland Sagas," which contain the oldest descriptions of the North American continent. Much more than rousing adventure narratives, though, the Sagas introduce modern readers to a now-vanished world separated from ours by a thousand years--a richly imagined and psychologically complex world, comparable in realistic effect with the novelistic genius of Austen or Dickens.
The publication of these volumes is a reminder that the Icelandic Sagas can hold their own with the literature of the Mediterranean." ---Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate, 1995
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The Sagas of the Icelandersby Robert Kellogg, Jane SmileyISBN 0141000031 (0-14-100003-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sagas of the Icelanders'Book summary:A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured further west--to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America itself.[via]The 10 Sagas and seven shorter tales in this volume include the celebrated "Vinland Sagas," which recount Leif Eiriksson's pioneering voyage to the New World and contain the oldest descriptions of the North American continent.
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Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finlandby Mick Sinclair, Jules BronwISBN 1858280397 (1-85828-039-7)
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Scandinavian Folk and Fairy Talesby Claire BoossISBN 0517436205 (0-517-43620-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Scandinavian Humor and Other Mythsby John AndersonISBN 0961696702 (0-9616967-0-2)
Softcover, Nordbook
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Smilla's Sense of Snowby Peter Hoeg, Tiina NunnallyISBN 0385315147 (0-385-31514-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smilla's Sense of Snow'Book summary:In this international bestseller, Peter Høeg successfully combines the pleasures of literary fiction with those of the thriller. Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Her childhood in Greenland gives her an appreciation for the complex structures of snow, and when she notices that the boy's footprints show he ran to his death, she decides to find out who was chasing him. As she attempts to solve the mystery, she uncovers a series of conspiracies and cover-ups and quickly realizes that she can trust nobody. Her investigation takes her from the streets of Copenhagen to an icebound island off the coast of Greenland. What she finds there has implications far beyond the death of a single child. The unusual setting, gripping plot, and compelling central character add up to one of the most fascinating and literate thrillers of recent years. [via]
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Softcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited - Smilla's Sense of Snow: ISBN 0792720245 (0-7927-2024-5)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer - Smilla's Sense of Snow: ISBN 0374266441 (0-374-26644-1)
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Talesby R. P. Keigwin, H.C. Andersen, Gustav HjortlundISBN 8770100918 (87-7010-091-8)
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The Vikingsby Else RoesdahlISBN 0140252827 (0-14-025282-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vikings'Book summary:For almost 300 years, from the 8th to the 11th centuries, the Vikings played an important and often decisive role in shaping the history of large parts of Europe. Their long ships took them from Scandinavia to conquer England, exploit the Franklin Empire, rule Normandy, trade in Russia, colonize Iceland, discover Greenland and America and much else. At the same time the three Scandinavian kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden started to take form. Towns were founded, far-flung trade routes were organized, art and poetry flourished and Christianity was introduced. This book covers the contributions of the many disciplines involved in modern Viking studies, giving a full survey of the Viking's achievements abroad. It also investigates the background which made it all possible and presents a picture of a strong, self-contained and fast developing society and culture. It discusses the sources of our knowledge, and those of the popular Viking myth. [via]
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Vikings: The North Atlantic Sagaby National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), William W. Fitzhugh, Elisabeth I. WardISBN 1560989955 (1-56098-995-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga'Book summary:In the early Middle Ages, driven by famine at home and the promise of wealth to be had in other lands, the Viking people exploded out of Scandinavia and set about conquering parts of England, Ireland, France, Russia, and even Turkey. Emboldened by their successes, the Vikings pushed ever farther outward, eventually crossing the North Atlantic and founding settlements in Iceland, Greenland, and eastern Canada.
In The Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga, some three dozen scholars examine the growing archaeological evidence of the Viking presence in the New World--including such items as a Norse coin excavated in Maine, runic stones from the Canadian Arctic, and farming implements found in Newfoundland. The contributors consider the sometimes friendly, sometimes warlike history of Viking interactions with the native peoples of northeastern North America (whom the Norse called skraelings, or "screamers"); compare the archaeological record with contemporary sagas and other records of exploration; and argue for the need to better document the Viking contribution to New World history.
"As an historical and cultural achievement," write the editors, "the Viking Age and its North American medieval extension stand out as one of the most remarkable periods in human history." This oversized, heavily illustrated volume celebrates that little-understood time. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Die Edda: Gotterdichtung, Sprachweisheit Und Heldengesange Der Germanenby Felix GenzmerISBN 3424007188 (3-424-00718-8)
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Cuentos Completos / Complete Storiesby Hans C. Andersen, Enrique Bernardez, Vilhelm Pedersen, Lorenz FrlichISBN 8437622174 (84-376-2217-4)
Hardcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Frken Smillas Fornemmelse for Sne: Romanby Peter HegISBN 8716149629 (87-16-14962-9)
Hardcover, Rosinante
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