Jesse Byock

Based on Viking Age poems, the saga combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. At its heart are the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer who acquires runic knowledge from one of Odin's Valkyries. Yet it is also 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. An illuminating Introduction links the historical Huns, Burgundians and Goths with the events of this Icelandic saga, whose author claimed that Sigurd's name was 'known in all tongues north of the Greek Ocean, and so it must remain while the world endures'.
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ISBN
9780140447385
Autores
Jesse Byock
Idiomas
Inglés
Año de publicación
2012
Editorial
Penguin
Categoría
Novela
Géneros
Ficción, General & Literary Fiction, Myths & Legends
Páginas
145
Peso
0.12