Status
Available
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Genres
Collection
Publication
Penguin Classics (2002), Paperback, 400 pages
Description
All the Icelandic sagas portray a world well aware of the power of words- to praise, to blame, to curse and to taunt. Yet these five stories are unusual in putting a skald, or poet, centre stage and building the plot around his travels to seek fame, his doomed love for a married woman and his hostilities against her menfolk.
Language
Original language
Old Norse
Original publication date
2002
Physical description
400 p.; 7.8 inches
ISBN
0140447717 / 9780140447712