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The Saga of the Volsungs Paperback - 2000
by Jesse L. Byock
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- Title The Saga of the Volsungs
- Author Jesse L. Byock
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, London
- Date 2000
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0140447385I5N00
- ISBN 9780140447385 / 0140447385
- Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.02 x 0.41 in (20.17 x 12.75 x 1.04 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
Based on Viking Age poems and composed in thirteenth-century Iceland, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend, and sheer human drama in telling of the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer, who acquires runic knowledge from one of Odin's Valkyries. Yet the saga is set in a very human world, incorporating oral memories of the fourth and fifth centuries, when Attila the Hun and other warriors fought on the northern frontiers of the Roman empire. In his illuminating Introduction Jesse L. Byock links the historical Huns, Burgundians, and Goths with the extraordinary events of this Icelandic saga. With its ill-fated Rhinegold, the sword reforged, and the magic ring of power, the saga resembles the Nibelungenlied and has been a primary source for such fantasy writers as J. R. R. Tolkien and for Richard Wagner's Ring cycle.