Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas

Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include Hen-Thorir, The Vapnfjord Men, Thorstein Staff-Struck, Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey, Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew, Authun and the Bear, Gunnlaug Wormtongue, King Hrolf and his Champions, and the title piece.

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Author: Gwyn Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.12w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9780199539154
ISBN10: 0199539154
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Sagas