Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland
Introducere de Viðar Hreinsson Editat de Robert Kelloggen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mar 2013
Comic Sagas and Talesbrings together the finest comic stories from medieval Iceland. With feuding families and moments of grotesque violence, the sagas see such classic mythological figures as murdered fathers, disguised beggars, corrupt chieftains and avenging sons do battle with axes, words and cunning. The tales, meanwhile, follow heroes and comical fools through dreams, voyages and religious conversions in Iceland and beyond. Shaped by Iceland's oral culture and their conversion to Christianity, these stories are works of ironic humour and stylistic innovation.
In the introduction to these new translations, Viðar Hreinsson examines how the stories satirised old-style sagas while exploiting their classic themes of quests and revenge. This edition also includes a map, glossary, index of characters, suggested further reading and notes.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780140447743
ISBN-10: 0140447741
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0140447741
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Viðar
Hreinsson
grew
up
on
a
farm
in
Northern
Iceland
and
studied
Icelandic
and
literary
theory
in
Iceland
and
Copenhagen.
He
is
an
independent
literary
scholar
at
the
Reykjavik
Academy
and
has
taught
and
lectured
on
various
aspects
of
Icelandic
literary
and
cultural
history
both
in
Iceland
and
abroad,
in
Canada,
USA
and
Scandinavia.
General
Editor
ofThe
Complete
Sagas
of
IcelandersI-V
(1997),
he
has
also
authored
an
award-winning
two-volume
biography
of
Icelandic
Canadian
poet
Stephan
G.
Stephansson
(2002-3).
More
recently,
he
has
been
an
environmental
activist,
written
two
additional
biographies
and
served
as
director
of
the
Reykjavík
Academy.
Recenzii
This
collection
of
strange
and
difficult-to-categorize
pieces
is
comic
not
in
the
usual
sense,
but
rather,
as
Viðar
explains
in
his
excellent
introduction,
in
the
sense
of
reading
counter
to
the
Icelandic
family
sagas,
whose
narratives
he
terms
tragic.
The
stories
here
are
edgy,
subversive
and
often
grim
little
narratives,
in
striking
contrast
to
the
humane,
wise
and
sometimes
uplifting
family
sagas