автор: Heather O Donoghue

From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. * An introduction to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. * …

English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History traces the influence of Old Norse myth — stories and poems about the familiar gods and goddesses of the pagan North, such as Odin, Thor, Baldr and Freyja …

Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative is a study of the varying relationships between verse and prose in a series of Old Norse-Icelandic saga narratives. It shows how the interplay of skald …

Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world’s greatest epic poems. Set in the half-legendary, half historical Scandinavian pas …

Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world’s greatest epic poems. Set in the half-legendary, half historical Scandinavian pas …

Whether they focus on Thor’s powerful hammer, the wailing Valkyrie, the palatial home of the gods — Asgard — or ravenous wolves and fierce elemental giants, the Norse myths are packed with rowdy inci …