Jesse Byock ist Professor für Altnordisch, Skandinavistische Mediävistik und Archäologie an der University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) und Professor an der Universität Island (Háskóli Íslands) in Reykjavík. Er wurde an der Harvard University promoviert. Auf Island leitet er u.a. das Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP), das die wikingerzeitliche Bebauung des Tals von Mosfell archäologisch erschließt. Jesse Byocks Publikationen befassen sich mit den Themen Wikingerzeit, Archäologie, Isländisches Mittelalter und Sagaliteratur. Von ihm sind u.a. erschienen: Viking Age Iceland (Penguin), Grettir”s Saga (Oxford University Press), Viking Language 1 und 2 (Jules William Press), Jesse Byock and Randall Gordon, Old Norse – Old Icelandic: Concise Introduction to the Language of the Sagas (Jules William Press).
7 Ebooks by Jesse Byock
Jesse Byock: Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
Composed in medieval Iceland, Hrolf’s Saga is one of the greatest of all mythic-legendary sagas, relating half-fantastical events that were said to have occurred in fifth-century Denmark. It tells of …
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Saga of the Volsungs
Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, Beowulf is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings’So the company of men led a careless life, …
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Snorri Sturluson: Prose Edda
The most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source of Norse mythology Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda tells ancient …
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Jesse Byock: Saga of the Volsungs
The epic Viking Age stories that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and Wagner’s Ring cycle Written in thirteenth-century Iceland but based on ancient Norse poetry cycles, The Saga of the Volsungs combines my …
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Jesse Byock: Viking Age Iceland
Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is domin …
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Jesse Byock: Sagas and Myths of the Northmen
In a land of ice, great warriors search for glory…When a dragon threatens the people of the north, only one man can destroy the fearsome beast. Elsewhere, a mighty leader gathers a court of champio …
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Jesse Byock: Altnordisch 1
Altnordisch 1. Die Sprache der Wikinger, Runen und isländischen Sagas dreht sich alles um die in der skandinavischen Wikingerzeit und im isländischen Mittelalter gesprochene altnordische Sprache . Au …
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