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Routledge Library Editions: Myth reissues four out-of-print classics that touch on various aspects of mythology. One book looks at the work of Martin ...
The Social Code in Indo-European Mythology
This structural analysis of myth, first published in 1985, focuses on social and political problems of Indo-European mythology. Dr Jarich Oosten tells...
The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed inter...
European Witness
Rarely does an American or European child grow up without an introduction to Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Ugly Duckling," "The Princess and the Pe...
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Magnus Magnusson relates the world-famous Icelandic sagas to the spectacular living landscapes of today, taking the reader on a literary tour of the m...
Comprehensive anthology contains exquisite cross-section of Western medieval literature, from Boethius and Augustine to Dante, Abelard, Marco Polo, an...
As Europes religious, social, economic, and cultural identity began to take more definite shape in the medieval and Renaissance eras, so too did its...
Influence, Legitimacy, and Power in Medieval Society
Medievalists reading and writing about and around authority-related themes lack clear definitions of its actual meanings in the medieval context. Auth...
A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries
Past to Present
This volume presents a comparative, socio-historical study of the Germanic standard languages (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, Ge...
This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on Englan...
Competition and Conquest in Europe Since the Bronze Age
An evolution of attitudes towards pre-Christian custom in , North-West Europe, as shown in early .medieval word-fields and texts in Old English and Ol...
New Perspectives
The cultural and literary legacy of medieval Iceland, with its roots in Norse heathen religion, heroic literature, and Viking Age history, is the focu...
The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
A thorough and ground-breaking examination of thirteenth-century skaldic verse, linking the poets of the time with leading families and with ecclesias...
The Wanderer's Hávamál features Jackson Crawford’s complete, carefully revised English translation of the Old Norse poem Hávamál, newly annotate...
With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok
From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature...
A Wise and Faithful Guide and Friend
Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North
Winner of the 2014 Mythopoeic Myth & Fantasy Studies Award At the heart of the mythology of the Anglo-Scandinavian-Germanic North is the evergreen Ygg...
G. Ronald Murphy offers an insightful examination of the lasting significance of Yggdrasil in northern Europe, showing that the tree's image persisted...
A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature
A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures
Beowulf & Other Stories was first conceived in the belief that the study of Old English – and its close cousins, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman – ...
A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature....
R.M. Liuzza’s translation of Beowulf, first published by Broadview in 1999, has been widely praised for its accuracy and beauty. The translation is ...
R.M. Liuzza’s translation of Beowulf, first published by Broadview in 1999, has been widely praised for its accuracy and beauty. The facing-page tra...
A New Survey of Universal Knowledge
A Biography of L A Waddell
Lieut.-Col. Laurence Austine Waddell (1854 1938) was a British Army officer with an established reputation mainly due to a work on the 'Buddhism' of T...
A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature
Offprints of All the New Material from the 12-volume Revised Edition of Masterplots
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Written by an international team of acclaimed folklorists, this reference text provides a cross-cultural survey of the major types and methods of inqu...
"Published here for the first time are seven of Emerson's topical notebooks, which served as a source for his lectures, essays, and books of the 1850s...
Scary Monsters of Myths and Legends
Fantastic Fearsome Beasts collects 44 beasts from mythology and folklore drawn from cultures all around the world, illustrated with outstanding new fu...
These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of ...
Landnamabok
Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of...