The Saga of the Volsungs
The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer
(Sprache: Englisch)
"This is a book of the highest importance. No one should attempt to teach about Viking society or claim to understand it without being familiar with this chilling and enduring myth.--Eleanor Searle, author of Predatory Kinship & the Creation of Norman...
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"This is a book of the highest importance. No one should attempt to teach about Viking society or claim to understand it without being familiar with this chilling and enduring myth.--Eleanor Searle, author of Predatory Kinship & the Creation of Norman Power"Byock's translation is excellent, but his thorough introduction is of equal scholarly importance. . . . His section on Richard Wagner's use of the Volsung material in writing his Ring will expand the topic toward modern Wagnerians."--Michael Bell, University of Colorado"The Saga of the Volsungs is one of the most important texts of Old Icelandic literature, with its treatment of Old Scandinavian heroic traditions. . . . The most difficult part of the text to translate is, of course, the poetry, but also here the translator has been successful."--Vésteinn Olason, University of Oslo
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The Icelandic prose epic whose anonymous thirteenth-century author based his stories on the legends of Old Scandinavian folk culture. It describes both fantastic mythic adventure and historical events of the 4th and 5th century A.D. A trove of traditional lore, it recounts stories of Odin and Attila the Hun. It tells of love, vengeance, runic knowledge, war, and the mythic deeds of the dragonslayer, Sigurd the Volsung. Byock remains true to the original text, while still providing a free-flowing, modern, colloquial style with just enough flavor of the archaic to make it seem "epic." His comprehensive introduction explores the history, legends, and myths contained in the saga and traces the development of a narrative that originated in the primeval forests of Northern Europe. The saga treats some of the same legends as the Middle High German epic poem, the Nibelungenlied. In both accounts, Sigurd (Siegfried in the German tradition) acquires the Rhinegold and becomes tragically enmeshed in a love triangle involving a supernatural woman. In the Norse tradition, she is Valkyrie, one of Odin's warrior-maidens.
Autoren-Porträt von Jesse L. Byock
Jesse L. Byock is Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Scandinavian Studies, Scandinavian Section, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jesse L. Byock
- 2012, 3rd rev. ed., 160 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 14 x 20,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Introduction and Translation by Jesse L. Byock
- Übersetzer: Jesse L. Byock
- Verlag: University of California Press
- ISBN-10: 0520272994
- ISBN-13: 9780520272996
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Englisch
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"Professor Byock is to be thanked for producing an eminently readable English version of the saga which will undoubtedly be well received . . . and which should do much to stimualte interest in the field." - Saga
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