The Wanderer: Elegies, Epics, and Riddles -- Poems from England's Ancient Origins Paperback - 2013
by Anonymous; Michael Alexander (Translator)
Summary
Legendary fantasy writer J. R. R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating, and teaching the ancient tales of northern Europe at Oxford and drew on them for his own writing. These epic stories, with their wizards and knights, dragons and trolls, cursed rings and magic swords, are as fascinating today as they were thousands of year ago. Reading them brings us as close as we will ever get to the magical worlds of the Vikings and the origins of their twentieth-century counterpart: Tolkien’s Middle Earth.
In this collection of the earliest verse in English, heroic poems celebrate the courage, loyalty, and strength of the ancient world: in "The Battle of Maldon" a brave Anglo-Saxon army attempt to fend off a Viking invasion; "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer" reflect on exile, loss and destiny; and The Exeter Riddles are witty linguistic puzzles that directly influenced Golum's famous riddles in Tolkien's The Hobbit.
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- Title The Wanderer: Elegies, Epics, and Riddles -- Poems from England's Ancient Origins
- Author Anonymous; Michael Alexander (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group
- Date 2013-10-29
- ISBN 9780141393742 / 0141393742
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.6 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 1.52 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100
- Dewey Decimal Code 829.100
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