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"Viking Language 1 - Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas"
provides everything necessary to learn Old Norse, runes, and tackle
Icelandic sagas. Graded lessons, saga readings, runic inscriptions,
grammar exercises, pronunciation, maps, cultural sections, student
guide, and vocabulary teach Old Norse and about Vikings, Iceland,
old Scandinavia, myths and legends. ----- Download FREE ANSWER KEY
on www.vikinglanguage.com ----- Now available, two audio MP3
download OLD NORSE PRONUNCIATION ALBUMS "VIKING LANGUAGE 1: AUDIO
LESSONS 1-8: (Pronounce Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas)" and
"Viking Language 1: Audio Lessons 9-15." To find search "Viking
Language audio lessons" under "all departments" and "MP3 music."
Also CDbaby and Itunes. ----- VISIT www.vikinglanguage.com for
information about the "Viking Language Series" and for samples of
the audio readings ---- Forthcoming soon "Viking Language 2 The Old
Norse Reader" including, prose selections, complete sagas, poems of
the Scandinavian gods and heroes, Old Norse runes, reference
grammar, and vocabulary.
"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 fantasy such as J.R.R. Tolkien and romantics such as William
Morris. A trove of traditional lore, it tells of love, jealousy,
vengeance, war, and the mythic deeds of the dragonslayer, Sigurd
the Volsung. Byock's comprehensive introduction explores the
history, legends, and myths contained in the saga and traces the
development of a narrative that reaches back to the period of the
great folk migrations in Europe when the Roman Empire collapsed.
The history of medieval Europe is incomplete if it does not take
Iceland into account. Jesse Byock's reassessment of medieval
Iceland uses all the available sources--the medieval Icelanders'
historical writings, extensive saga literature, and intricate
laws--to explore the way Iceland's social order functioned.
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
regulation of conflict--is reflected in the narrative of the family
sagas and the "Sturlunga saga" compilation. This comprehensive
study of narrative structure demonstrates that the sagas are
complex expressions of medieval social thought.
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