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The Elder Edda (Bray Translation) - Sæmund Sigfusson
The Elder Edda (Bray Translation) - Sæmund Sigfusson
- Author: Sæmund Sigfusson
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Sagas / Other religions
The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems dating from the thirteenth century CE. Though no two translators or editors seem to agree on precisely which poems should be included in this collection, the Elder Edda is the most...
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow - Allen French
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow - Allen French
- Author: Allen French
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Sagas / Historical
Rolf, a youth in early Christian Iceland, loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to the schemes of a greedy neighbor. Outlawed from Iceland, Rolf travels abroad, meeting with shipwreck, enslavement, Viking berserkers, and...
Amadis of Gaul - Vasco de Lobeira
Amadis of Gaul - Vasco de Lobeira
- Author: Vasco de Lobeira
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Sagas
Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th century. Not only is its authorship doubtful, but even the language in which it was first written - Portuguese or...
The Tragic Muse - Henry James
The Tragic Muse - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction / Sagas
Art or politics, this is the question Nick Dormer dealls with in the course of this novel. Mirian Ruth, an aspiring actress, is the "tragic muse" of the title. Her concerns are a bit different: would proper society accept her as an actress, or would...
The World’s Story Volume VIII: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and the Search for the Poles - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume VIII: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and the Search for the Poles - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Sagas / History
This is the eighth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a...
The Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation) - Elias Lönnrot
The Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation) - Elias Lönnrot
- Author: Elias Lönnrot
- Genre: Poetry / Sagas
This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seabird and continuing to the birth of the Kaleva District, the lands of Finland. (Summary by Squid B. Varilekova)...
The Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths - Various
The Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Sagas
Compilation of tales designed and arranged for young people. This volume covers tales from the North, the Rhine, Greece and Rome, tales from the Hudson River, and animal stories. - Summary by DrPGould...
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3 - Eliza Haywood
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3 - Eliza Haywood
- Author: Eliza Haywood
- Genre: Romance / Sagas
Betsy Thoughtless is about marriage, rather than dealing with courrtship and thus differs from the type of domestic writing that would develop in the 19th century such as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Rather than attracting a partner well, Betsy...
The Mabinogion, Volume 2 - Anonymous
The Mabinogion, Volume 2 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Sagas / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is the second of three volumes of The Mabinogion, a collection of some of the earliest tales from the British Isles. Lady Charlotte Guest translated the stories in Volume 2 from a 14th-century Welsh manuscript, The Red Book of Hergest. These...
The Mabinogion, Volume 1 - Anonymous
The Mabinogion, Volume 1 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas
Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest: On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flock of black sheep. And whenever one of the white sheep bleated, one of the black sheep would cross over, and...
Nibelungenlied - Anonymous
Nibelungenlied - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas
The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfried at the court of the Burgundians, how he was murdered, and of his wife Kriemhild's revenge. The...
The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer - Anonymous
The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas
This is the prequel of the Nibelungenlied. It tells the tale of Siegfried as a young man when he sets forth to earn a name for himself so he will be able to stand proudly with his ancestors. - Summary by Fritz...
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) - Murasaki SHIKIBU
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) - Murasaki SHIKIBU
- Author: Murasaki SHIKIBU
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Sagas / Published before 1800
The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel,...
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4 - Eliza Haywood
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4 - Eliza Haywood
- Author: Eliza Haywood
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Sagas
Betsy Thoughtless is about an intelligent and strong-willed woman who marries under pressure from the society in which she lives. Betsy learns that sometimes giving way to the role of women within a marriage can at times be fulfilling. This is the...
Policy and Passion - Rosa Campbell Praed
Policy and Passion - Rosa Campbell Praed
- Author: Rosa Campbell Praed
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Sagas
"Policy and Passion, a Novel of Australian Life" tells the story about a father and daughter, torn between the policy of the country in which they live and the passions both have. The father, Thomas, is a rising politician until his love for a...
Finnish Legends - R. EIVIND
Finnish Legends - R. EIVIND
- Author: R. EIVIND
- Genre: Sagas
One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family sit around the fire, and the daughter asks him to tell them "all the stories he had ever heard from the very...
In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2) - John Galsworthy
In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2) - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Sagas
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. In Chancery is the second book in the saga. Five years have passed since Irene left Soames and the death of Bosinney. Old...
The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald - Anonymous
The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Sagas
A tale from Iceland, 800 years ago. In a dream of quarrels and death The birth of fair Helga is told Cross the north seas ventured for fame At the call of kings, hearth bereft Wounded pride, spawn'd of a sensed slight When tongues fail, sharper...
Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes (Kirby translation) - Elias Lönnrot
Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes (Kirby translation) - Elias Lönnrot
- Author: Elias Lönnrot
- Genre: Sagas
The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. It is regarded as the national epic of Karelia and Finland and is one of the most significant works of Finnish...
The Frithiof Saga - Ferdinand Schmidt
The Frithiof Saga - Ferdinand Schmidt
- Author: Ferdinand Schmidt
- Genre: Sagas
Iceland is the home of the Saga, a form of literature which includes the telling of the story of a hero’s life and adventures in a fixed, regular form, and which is usually intended for recitation, though the Saga is never set in the customary...
The Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation) - Snorri STURLESON
The Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation) - Snorri STURLESON
- Author: Snorri STURLESON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas / Other religions
Also known as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, the Prose Edda is a three-part work composed or at least compiled by thirteenth-century Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson. Along with the Elder or Poetic Edda written by an unknown poet a...
The Norwegian Fairy Book - Klara Stroebe
The Norwegian Fairy Book - Klara Stroebe
- Author: Klara Stroebe
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas
These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, have been handed down by hinds and huntsmen, wood choppers and fisher folk. They are men who led a hard and lonely life amid primitive surroundings. The Norwegian Fairy Book has an...
Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages - Wilhelm Wägner
Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages - Wilhelm Wägner
- Author: Wilhelm Wägner
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Sagas
This volume contains the principal hero-lays of the six great epic cycles of the Teutonic Middle Ages: The Langobardian Legends, the Amelung and Kindred Legends; Dietrich of Bern's Adventures; the Nibelung Legends; the Hegeling Legends; and Beowulf....
Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende - Jean-Bernard Mary-Lafon
Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende - Jean-Bernard Mary-Lafon
- Author: Jean-Bernard Mary-Lafon
- Genre: Sagas
Taulat de Rugimon arrives at the court of King Arthur and stabs one of Arthur's knights. Jaufry, a young and ambitious knight, sets off in pursuit to avenge the insult to Arthur's court. After a series of bizarre adventures, Jaufry catches up with...
Legends of Norseland - Mara L. Pratt
Legends of Norseland - Mara L. Pratt
- Author: Mara L. Pratt
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas / Short Stories
Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames of Ragnarok. (Summary by Ryan Williams)...
The Heavenly Twins - Sarah Grand
The Heavenly Twins - Sarah Grand
- Author: Sarah Grand
- Genre: Family Life / Sagas / Published 1800 -1900
First published in 1893, this novel came to question many subjects which were considered taboo. Through a few interconnected plots and sub plots, the story examines the role of women and the different opportunities women and men had. Through the...
