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Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Saga of the Volsungs is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

'They summoned their friends, readied
their horses, and prepared their helmets,
shields, swords, coats of mail'

J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales.

Legends from the Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's [...] are startling, brutal, strange pieces of writing, with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these [...] plunge the reader into a world of treachery, quests, chivalry, trials of [...] are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe and bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century.

Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Saga of the Volsungs is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

'They summoned their friends, readied
their horses, and prepared their helmets,
shields, swords, coats of mail'

J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales.

Legends from the Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's [...] are startling, brutal, strange pieces of writing, with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these [...] plunge the reader into a world of treachery, quests, chivalry, trials of [...] are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe and bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century.

Über den Autor
Illustrated by Petra Borner
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Importe, Märchen & Sagen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Legends from the Ancient North
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780141393681
ISBN-10: 0141393688
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Anonym
Byock, Jesse L.
Illustrator: Borner, Petra
Übersetzung: Byock, Jesse
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd
Legends from the Ancient North
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 130 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Anonym
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.11.2013
Gewicht: 0,127 kg
Artikel-ID: 105981629

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