Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas
10 best books like Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas (Unknown): Twelve Angry Men, The Agricola and The Germania, The Prose Edda, Njal's Saga, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, Myths of the Norsemen: Retold from the Old Norse Poems and Tales, Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings, The Quest of the Holy Grail, King Harald's Saga, Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia
| Author | Reginald Rose |
| ISBN | 0143104403 |
A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David Mamet
A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply...
| Author | Tacitus |
| ISBN | 0140442413 |
The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country,...
| Author | Snorri Sturluson |
| ISBN | 0140447555 |
'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?'
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0140447695 |
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....
| Author | Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson |
| ISBN | 0140136274 |
Tiw, Woden, Thunor, Frig. these ancient northern deities gave their names to the very days of our week. Nevertheless, most of us know far more of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and the classical deities. Recent researches in archaeology and mythology have added to what was already a fairly consistent...
| Author | Roger Lancelyn Green |
| ISBN | 0140367381 |
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“The myths of the Northmen, from the ice and snow of the Scandinavian countries, tell how in the beginning there was only the Yawning Void, which they called Ginnungagap, but deep in the Void lay the Well of Life. In course of time ice...
Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings
| Author | Snorri Sturluson |
| ISBN | 0486263665 |
The is a revised update of an early Everyman edition of Snorri's Heimskringla that was originally translated by Samuel Laing in the 1840s. The revisions are done by Jacqueline Simpson and Peter Foote, who for some strange reason revise the prose texts and supply new introductions but leave Samuel Laing's...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0140442200 |
Composed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a fusion of Arthurian legend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound spiritual fable. It recounts the quest of the knights of Camelot - the simple Perceval, the thoughtful...
| Author | Snorri Sturluson |
| ISBN | 0140441832 |
This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led to his death and marked the end of an era in which...
| Author | E.O.G. Turville-Petre |
| ISBN | 0837174201 |
A comprehensive work on the major gods of the North and the religious practices of its peoples. It does have a scholarly style, but it wasn’t a difficult read. The introduction focuses on the authenticity and reliability of the primary (and fragmentary) sources of Norse Mythology: the Eddas and the...
