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The Saga of the Jomsvikings Lee M. Hollander

The Saga of the Jomsvikings par Lee M. Hollander

The Saga of the Jomsvikings Lee M. Hollander


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Résumé

The story of a battle in AD 986 -- a strong ruler and his men versus a famed warrior community that feared no one and dared all.

The Saga of the Jomsvikings Résumé

The Saga of the Jomsvikings Lee M. Hollander

In A.D. 986, Earl Hakon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjorunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old Norse world. Two centuries later their accounts of the battle became the basis for one of the liveliest of the Icelandic sagas, with special emphasis on the doings of the Jomsvikings, the famed members of a warrior community that feared no one and dared all. In Lee M. Hollander's faithful translation, all of the unknown twelfth-century author's narrative genius and flair for dramatic situation and pungent characterization is preserved.

À propos de Lee M. Hollander

Lee M. Hollander was professor emeritus of Germanic languages at the University of Texas at Austin and an authority in Nordic language and literature. His translations of the best prose and poetry of the Old North among them Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway and The Poetic Edda have also appeared under the imprint of the University of Texas Press.

Sommaire

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1. Knut the Foundling
  • 2. King Gorm's Dreams
  • 3. Earl Harold's Visions
  • 4. Knut Gormsson Is Slain in England
  • 5. King Harold and Earl Hakon Plot Together
  • 6. King Harold Has Aki Tokason Slain
  • 7. Palnir's Marriage. The Rise of Palnatoki
  • 8. Of King Harold and Saumaesa
  • 9. Svein's Dealings with King Harold
  • 10. Palnatoki Slays King Harold and Proclaims Svein King
  • 11. Palnatoki Acknowledges His Arrow
  • 12. The Founding of Jomsborg
  • 13. Of Earl Strut-Harold and Veseti and Their Sons
  • 14. King Svein Arbitrates the Feud
  • 15. Bui, Sigvaldi, and Vagn Join the Jomsvikings
  • 16. Of Palnatoki's Death and Sigvaldi's Ambition
  • 17. Sigvaldi Captures King Svein
  • 18. The Vows of the Jomsvikings
  • 19. Geirmund Escapes and Warns Earl Hakon
  • 20. Preparations for the Battle
  • 21. The Battle
  • 22. The Aftermath
  • 23. The Testing of the Jomsvikings
  • 24. Of Vagn, Sigvaldi, and the Other Jomsvikings

Informations supplémentaires

GOR007468990
9780292776234
0292776233
The Saga of the Jomsvikings Lee M. Hollander
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
University of Texas Press
1988-12-01
116
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