Written in Iceland by an unknown author about 1280, Nj\u00e1ls saga has been called the greatest work of vernacular prose fiction from the European Middle Ages. Allen's finely written and perceptive study is one of the first in English to offer a critical examination of the text.
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the life and work of Tryggve Andersen. Stressing that Andersen was a transitional writer, Schiff deftly shows him torn between defunct traditions of the recent past and a sterile, hopeless future. Andersen's prose fiction, according to Schiff, contains elegant, finely crafted works of art. His works are highly relevant to today's reader, for they reflect some of the most compelling characteristics of the Western experience of the last century and a hal...
The Finnish language belongs to a non-Indo-European group of languages whose origins have been traced to a region just west of the Urals. During the first milennium of our era, Uralic-speakers in the Baltic region developed the oral poetry which is the basis of the Kalevala, the epic poem of Finland which was assembled only 150 years ago as a portrait of an ancient people in war and peace. This poem, which has often been compared with the epics of Homer, played a central role in the process towa...
Thirteen people are spending the shortest night of the year together in an isolated manor house. On the morning of Midsummer's Eve, the brightest star in Swedish television, Michelle Carlsson, is found shot to death in a mobile control room. The murder turns Annika Bengtzon's world upside down. One of the suspects is her best friend. Annika's boyfriend, Thomas, accuses her of letting the family down. Anders Schyman, her boss, involves her in a public power struggle. Meanwhile there's a kill...
La Saga de Sverrir, Roi de Norvege (Classiques Du Nord, #16)
by Karl Jonsson
The Messenger Must Die (McGraw-Hill Paperbacks McGraw-Hill Book Company)
by Kjell-Olof Bornemark
Old Norse Mythology-Comparative Perspectives (Hellenic Studies (HUP))
Old Norse mythology is elusive: it is the label used to describe the religious stories of the pre-Christian North, featuring such well-known gods as Odin and Thor, yet most of the narratives have come down to us in manuscripts from the Middle Ages mainly written by Christians. Our view of the stories as they were transmitted in oral form in the pre-Christian era is obscured.To overcome these limitations, this book assembles comparisons from a range of theoretical and analytical perspectives-acro...
Keeper of the Protocols (American University Studies Series 1: Germanic Languages and Literature, #108)
by Joe Martin
Ibsen (Critical Heritage)