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Seven Viking romances

translated with an introduction by Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards

(Penguin classics)

Penguin, 1985

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Bibliography: p. [21]-23

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Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse romances. Powerfully inspired works of Icelandic imagination, they relate intriguing, often comical tales of famous kings, difficult gods and women of great beauty, goodness or cunning. The tales plunder a wide range of earlier literature from Homer to the French romances - as in the tale of the wandering hero Arrow-Odd, which combines several older legends, or Egil and Asmund, where the story of Odysseus and the Cyclops is skilfully adapted into a traditional Norse legend. These are among the most outrageous, delightful and exhilarating tales in all Icelandic literature.

Table of Contents

Translated by Hermann Palsson and Paul EdwardsIntroduction Maps: Europe of the Viking Romances Note on the Texts and Translations Bibliography Seven Viking Romances Arrow-Odd King Gautrek Halfdan Eysteinsson Bosi and Herraud Egil and Asmund Thorstein Mansion-Might Helgi Thorisson Appendix: Sources and parallels of Arrow-Odd List of Proper Names

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