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  • A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse

    by Richard Hamer ...
    A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer', as well as a generous representation of the many important fragments, riddles and gnomic verses that survive from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, with facing-page verse translations. These poems are the well ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Beowulf

    In Blank Verse

    by Richard Hamer ...
    The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf tells the story of the hero's slaying of three fabulous monsters, set against the historical background of sixth-century Scandinavian wars and dynasties. Its alliterative and metrical rules are complex, and many previous translators have attempted to replicate them. Here, blank verse has been used, as being more suitable for the less inflected and freer syntax of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Norse Myths, Icelandic Sagas and Viking Chronicles

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    This vast ebook Anthology is exploding with masterpieces of world literature, ranging from the peerless Icelandic Sagas, to the Norwegian 'Heimskringla', or the 'Chronicle of the Kings of Norway'.As well as these original texts (in English Translation), are several accompanying great works of scholarship which are an essential companion to the texts - assisting the reader in their understanding of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

    The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrún, and the Fall of the Nibelungs.“Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, of the great legend of Northern antiquity, in two closely related poems to which he gave the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Legend of Ragnar Lodbrok

    Viking King and Warrior

    Millions love the hit television show Vikings—but how many fans know that its main character, Ragnar, is based on an actual Viking king whose ambitious and terrifying exploits have been legend since the ninth century AD? As fierce, cunning, and determined as the character he inspired, King Ragnar Lodbrok is perhaps most famous for his sacking of Paris in 845 AD. He is also widely regarded to be ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Beowulf

    Translated by Michael Alexander ...
    Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope. It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the Danish king Hrothgar, then with Grendel's avenging mother, and finally with a dragon that threatens to devastate his homeland. Through its blend of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Delphi Collected Norse Sagas (Illustrated)

    Series Book 5 - Delphi Series Nine
    Norse sagas concern tales of ancient Nordic and Germanic history, detailing early Viking voyages, the battles that took place during these voyages, exotic adventures in foreign lands and the migration to Iceland. These prose sagas were written in the Old Norse language, sharing similarities with epic poetry, telling of heroic deeds of days long gone. The tales offer an endless panorama of pagan ... Read more

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  • The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrún

    Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity in powerful alliterative verse, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. In the Lay of the Völsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fáfnir, most celebrated of dragons; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Beowulf

    This acclaimed modern verse translation of the timeless epic of bravery and battle captures the drama and tone of the Old English narrative poem.Here is the stirring legend of Beowulf, the great hero who saves the Danish king from the monster Grendel—only to face the avenging wrath of Grendel's Mother. The first masterpiece of English literature, it has survived for centuries, passed down across ... Read more

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  • Beowulf

    Classic Anglo-Saxon Verse

    by Anonymous ...
    Series series Ancient Classics
    Over 1000 years old, the Anglo-Saxon poem 'Beowulf" is one of the great classic epics of European Literature.The hero Beowulf is a great warrior and nobleman who comes to the aid of the Danish King Hrothgar, whose Kingdom is being attacked and terrorised by the monster Grendel. Beowulf does battle with Grendel, becomes King, and encounters many further adventures beyond.This book contains the text ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Beowulf and Other Old English Poems

    Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Beowulf

    The Fight at Finnsburh

    Edited by Heather O'Donoghue ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    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 past, it tells the story of the hero Beowulf, who comes to the aid of the Danish king Hrothgar by killing first the terrifying, demonic monster Grendel, and then Grendel's infuriated and vengeful mother. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD