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Saga Six Pack 5 (Hardcover)
Peter Christen Asbjornsen, R.M. Ballantyne, George Webbe Dasent, Jorgen Engebretsen, Snorri Sturluson, …
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R1,737
Discovery Miles 17 370
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Saga Six Pack 5 is a Viking-sized selection of Scandinavian
super-stories: Erling the Bold by R. M. Ballantyne; Big Peter and
Little Peter by George Webbe Dasent; The Saga of Harald Hardrade by
Snorri Sturluson; The Master Thief by Peter Christen Asbjornsen; A
Sea Queen's Sailing by Charles W. Whistler and Bruin and Reynard by
Jorgen Engebretsen.
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Saga Six Pack 4 (Hardcover)
Peter Christen Asbjornsen, Abbie Farwell Brown, George Webbe Dasent, Jorgen Engebretsen Moe, Snorri Sturluson, …
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R1,902
R1,734
Discovery Miles 17 340
Save R168 (9%)
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Saga Six Pack 4 presents a sizzling sextet of Scandinavian
super-sagas:In The Days of Giants - A Book of Norse Tales by Abbie
Farwell Brown; Saga of Halfdan the Black by Snorri Sturluson; True
and Untrue by George Webbe Dasent; Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and
his Brothers Eystein and Olaf by Snorri Sturluson; King Alfred's
Viking - A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. Whistler
and Little Annie the Goose-girl by Peter Christen Asbjornsen.
One of many books by Charles Whistler, a writer of historic fiction
that plays between 600 and 1100 AD, usually based on early
English/Saxon chronicles, Norse or Danish Sagas and archeological
discoveries. This book tells more of the battles between the
English (united at last) and the Danes, and is the story of the
first navy of England, built by Alfred with a little help from
Norse friends.
This 1913 book was considered ground-breaking on first publication.
While there are few documentary sources for Anglo-Saxon history,
Major uses his intimate knowledge of the geography of the West
County to re-interpret the surviving records. By examining physical
and archaeological evidence, he sheds new light on the foundation
and development of the kingdom of Wessex. He also uses modern
boundaries, place names and local traditions, previously overlooked
by scholars, to understand how Wessex history was shaped. He shows
how the kingdom was first established, and its boundaries extended
through warfare with its neighbours, between the late fifth to
eighth centuries. Thereafter, famously led by Alfred the Great,
Wessex fought and survived Viking invasions; but eventually fell to
the Normans in 1066. Although much new archaeological evidence has
been uncovered since the book was written, it continues to
demonstrate the significance of landscape and folklore study to
history.
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