The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
8 best books like The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (Anonymous): The Prose Edda, The Poetic Edda, The Nibelungenlied, The Lais of Marie de France, The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America, Thin Air: A Ghost Story, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell, The Vikings
| 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 | Snorri Sturluson |
| ISBN | 0292764995 |
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...
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0140441379 |
Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prince of the Netherlands, wins the hand of the beautiful...
| Author | Marie de France |
| ISBN | 0140447598 |
This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of her but she was probably the Abbess of the abbey at Shaftesbury in the late 12th century, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet and hence the half-sister of Henry II of England. It was to a king, and...
The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0140441549 |
One of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Together, the direct, forceful twelfth-century Grænlendinga Saga and the more polished and scholarly Eirik's Saga,...
| Author | Michelle Paver |
| ISBN | 1409163342 |
The Himalayas, 1935
Kangchenjunga. Third highest peak on earth. Greatest killer of them all.
Five Englishmen set off from Darjeeling, determined to tackle the sacred summit. But courage can only take them so far - and the mountain is not their only foe.
As mountain sickness...
| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| ISBN | 0007590083 |
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.Suitable for tablets. Some special characters may not display correctly on older devices.We recommend that you download...
| Author | Else Roesdahl |
| ISBN | 0140252827 |
Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. This encyclopedic study brings together...
