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Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Saga of
the Volsungs is one of the classic books that influenced JRR
Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings 'They summoned their
friends, readied their horses, and prepared their helmets, shields,
swords, coats of mail' J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life
studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of
northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and
magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a
great work of literature and, even if he had never written The
Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, would be recognised today as a
significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales.
Legends from the Ancient North brings together from Penguin
Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's fiction.They are
startling, brutal, strange pieces of writing, with an elemental
power brilliantly preserved in these translations.They plunge the
reader into a world of treachery, quests, chivalry, trials of
strength.They are the most ancient narratives that exist from
northern Europe and bring us as near as we will ever get to the
origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which
Tolkien remade in the 20th century.
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The Elder Edda (Paperback)
Andy Orchard; Illustrated by Petra Borner
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Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda
is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The
Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings 'I was in the East, battling
giants, wicked-hearted women, who wandered the fells; great would
be the giant-race, if they all lived: mankind would be nothing
under, middle-earth. What did you do meantime, Grey-beard?' J.R.R.
Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching
the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes,
dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for
his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if
he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, would be
recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of
these extraordinary tales. Legends from the Ancient North brings
together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind
Tolkien's fiction.They are startling, brutal, strange pieces of
writing, with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these
translations.They plunge the reader into a world of treachery,
quests, chivalry, trials of strength.They are the most ancient
narratives that exist from northern Europe and bring us as near as
we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of
Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century.
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