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Icelandic Folk Tales
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Hjoerleifur Helgi Stefansson; Illustrated by Tord Sandstroem Fahlstroem
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Iceland is a country where stories are as important as history.
When Vikings settled the island, they brought their tales with
them. Every rock, hot spring and waterfall seems to have its own
story. Cruel man-eating trolls rub shoulders with beautiful elves,
whose homes are hidden from mortal view. Vengeful ghosts envy the
living, seeking to drag lost loves into their graves - or they may
simply demand a pinch of your snuff. Some of the stories in this
collection are classic Icelandic tales, while others are completely
new to English translation. Hjoerleifur has always been deeply
interested in the rich lore of his island. His grandparents
provided a second home in his upbringing and taught him much about
the past through their own way of life. Hjoerleifur is dedicated to
breathing fresh life into the stories he loves.
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translation in this book. From his creative attention to detail in
these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of
his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing
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lectures in which, while always anchored in the text, he expressed
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slay Beowulf 'snuffling in baffled rage and injured greed when he
discovers the theft of the cup'; but he rebuts the notion that this
is 'a mere treasure story', 'just another dragon tale'. He turns to
the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago,
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been the form and style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf, in
which there was no association with the 'historical legends' of the
Northern kingdoms.
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