Njal's Saga
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 031320814X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 389 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-27 |
| Language | : | Old Norse |
DESCRIPTION:
Hollander was Professor of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas at Austin and an authority in Nordic language and literature.Tom Griffith has also translated Plato's The Republic, Symposium, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Phaedrus.Lee M. Hollander was Professor of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas at Austin and an authority in Nordic language and literature. . Lee M
Language Notes Text: English, Icelandic (translation)
Though connoisseurs may insist that several other sagas excell the Njal's as works of art, Njala (as the Icelanders fondly call it) has by all odds been the most famous Icelandic saga and the best loved in ancient as well as in modern times.
Exciting! Christian I like how the chieftains appear in the meetings and I find all its system of laws very interesting. The adventures and the violence complement the book with pleasure.. Toby Joyce said North. I live in Ireland, and am mindful that our greatest poet of this generation Seamus Heaney, who has published a collection 'North' influenced by sagas like this one, said 'Read the Norse sagas to understand Northern Ireland'. Here you find the same internecine blood-feuding that has bedevilled part of this island, whether it is a remnant of the Viking Age I do n. Stuart W. Mirsky said A Northern Illiad. Although most of us have heard of the Greek epics and, in particular, the Illiad and Odyssey (the two most renowned epics in the western world), we have far less familiarity with the literary tradition of the old Norse folk who inhabited the lands about the Baltic and North Atlantic in early medieval times. Of course, we've heard about the vikings, coastal pira