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.
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The Saga of the Volsungs
The Saga of the Volsungs is an Icelandic epic of special interest to admirers of Richard Wagner, who drew heavily upon this Norse source in writing his Ring Cycle and a primary source for writers of …
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Saga of the Volsungs
Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, Beowulf is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings’So the company of men led a careless life, …
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Jesse Byock: Prose Edda
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells …
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Jesse Byock: Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
Composed in medieval Iceland, Hrolf’s Saga is one of the greatest of all mythic-legendary sagas, relating half-fantastical events that were said to have occurred in fifth-century Denmark. It tells of …
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Jesse Byock: Saga of the Volsungs
The epic Viking Age stories that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and Wagner’s Ring cycle Written in thirteenth-century Iceland but based on ancient Norse poetry cycles, The Saga of the Volsungs combines …
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Jesse Byock: Viking Age Iceland
Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is …
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€11.99
Jesse Byock: Sagas and Myths of the Northmen
In a land of ice, great warriors search for glory…When a dragon threatens the people of the north, only one man can destroy the fearsome beast. Elsewhere, a mighty leader gathers a court of …
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Jesse L. Byock: Viking Language 1
Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas . Everything necessary to learn and teach Old Norse. Graded lessons, saga readings, runic inscri …
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€17.99
Jesse L. Byock: Feud in the Icelandic Saga
Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society—the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the …
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