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21. Hammer of Thor - Norse Mythology and Legends - Special Edition by H.A. Guerber | |
Paperback: 268
Pages
(2010-05-04)
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22. Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching) | |
Paperback: 390
Pages
(2005-04-25)
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Editorial Review Product Description In the past few decades, interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a great deal of interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Until the 1980s, however, there was a distinct lack of scholarship in the area, so in 1985, Carol J. Clover and John Lindow brought together some of the most ambitious and distinguished Old Norse scholars to contribute essays for a collection that would finally fill the void of a comprehensive guide to the field. The contributors summarize and comment on scholarly work in the major branches of the field: eddic and skaldic poetry, family and kings' sagas, courtly writing, and mythology. Taken together, their judicious and well-written essays, each with a full bibliography, make up this vital survey of Old Norse literature in English - a basic reference work that has stimulated much research and helped to open up the field to a wider academic readership. This volume has become an essential text for instructors, and twenty years later, is now being republished as part of the Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (MART) series with a new preface that discusses more recent contributions to the field. |
23. Norse Mythology: Great Stories from the Eddas by Hamilton Wright Mabie | |
Paperback: 96
Pages
(2002-04-10)
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NORSE MYTHOLOGY by Hamilton Wright Mabie
excelent book
Well told stories for All
Not for children
Depends on your purpose. |
24. Medieval Garments Reconstructed: Norse Clothing Patterns by Lilli Fransen, Anna Norgard, Else Ostergard | |
Hardcover: 200
Pages
(2010-10-31)
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25. The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(1965-05-30)
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Vinland Sagas Appraisal
Very good but needs to be updated
Well done work
Very good but needs up dated
Excellent Intro, Readable Text |
26. Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: A Fifty-Year Literary and Erotic Odyssey by Harold Norse | |
Paperback: 448
Pages
(2002-04-30)
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From the Back Cover
The Best Writer you've never heard of... Make no mistake about it: Harold Norse is the real thing...and more. From Barry Miles's book, The Beat Hotel: "...for a brief period -- from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963 -- it was home to Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, Peter Orlovsky, Harold Norse, and a host of other luminaries of the Beat Generation." Norse was there -- no only as witness -- but, much more importantly, particpant. And he wrote. Here's one of my favorite parts of the book: "In February 1960, before moving into the Beat Hotel, I began doing ink drawings and cut-up poetry at the Hotel Univers on rue St. Grégoire de Tours next door to Edouard Roditi. He had often put me up at number 8 where, he said, Théodore de Banville had rented a room for Rimbaud. Shortly after I moved into the Beat Hotel in April, I wrote Sniffing Keyholes, a sex/dope scene between a muscular black youth called Melo and a blond Russian princess called Z.Z. It was my first narrative cut-up. I felt I had broken through semantic and psychological barriers; hashish and opium helped with the aleatory process. My experience of breaking new ground alarmed and exhilarated me. For awhile I believed I had lost my reason but didn’t consider it a great loss—the mind works in mysterious ways. Actually, word, image, and perception come together in a simultaneous jumble, not, as grammar and logic would have us believe, in a linear structure. I telescoped language in word clusters in a way James Joyce had pioneered, but with this difference: I allowed the element of chance to determine novel and surprising configurations of language. John Cage had done it in music, Pollock in painting. When I showed it to Brion Gysin he raved, “You’ve done something new! It’s a gas! Bill must see this right away.” Bill Burroughs came down to my room. “Well, Harold, Brion says you’ve written a very funny cut-up. I’d love to see it.” In his fedora and topcoat he sat at the edge of my bed reading the piece, exploding in little sniffs and snorts, his equivalent of lusty guffaws. “This is marvelous,” he said, looking up. “You must show it to Girodias.” Maurice Girodias, owner of Olympia Press, had published Naked Lunch; his father had published Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. But I wasn’t so sure he’d go mad about a few typewritten pages of cut-up. Burroughs disagreed. “I’m calling him right away to get you an appointment.” A day or two later I trekked over to the office a few blocks away on the rue St. Séverin. I was right. Girodias read it and thought it similar to Burroughs. He wanted to see more but didn’t sound enthusiastic. “He missed the point,” snorted Burroughs. “He rejected Naked Lunch the first time it was offered to him.” Poetry (Norse is one of Ferlinghetti's "Pocket Poets"), cut-up, essays, important correspondence (his letters to William Carlos Williams have been published, and soon to be are his letters to Charles Bukowski) and, most recently, this memoir; it's a fascinating look into the life of a writer who can't be pigeonholed into any category, whether it's Beat, Gay, or Counterculture. Norse is more than any label the critics will try and stick on his forehead. If you ask me, he's one of the 20th century's most overlooked writers, and with the paperback edition of this fine work, maybe His Day is just around the corner. ... Read more |
27. Mythology: Norse Gods (Mythology Of...) by Arthur Cotterell | |
Paperback: 96
Pages
(2006-10-25)
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Lots of Details |
28. Favorite Norse Myths (Dover Value Editions) by Abbie Farwell Brown, E. Boyd Smith | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2006-08-31)
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29. An Elementary Grammar of the Old Norse Or Icelandic Language by George Bayldon | |
Paperback: 134
Pages
(2010-04-04)
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30. The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer | |
Paperback: 145
Pages
(2002-01-07)
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Read it in class
Very Interesting
Great translation of a great saga
Career Conflict Ends in Tragedy
A bloody medieval soap opera |
31. A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) | |
Paperback: 584
Pages
(2007-05-14)
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32. In the Hub of the Fiery Force: Collected Poems 1934-2003 by Harold Norse | |
Paperback: 512
Pages
(2003-12-29)
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In the hub of the fiery Norse
"i write to make myself real/ from moment to moment"
A Full Life of Talking--but more Prosaic than Poetic?
The Difficulty of Harold Norse
As many as there are stars in the sky |
33. Popular Tales from the Norse | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2010-04-17)
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34. Tales from the Norse Legends (Junior Classics) by Edward Ferrie | |
Audio CD: 0
Pages
(1995-09)
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My son listens to this over and over
Hammer of the Gods
Dark brooding tales that hold your interest |
35. Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World: Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies Ross (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe) by J. Quinn | |
Hardcover: 420
Pages
(2007-11-28)
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Ilaidj |
36. Women in Old Norse Society by Jenny Jochens | |
Paperback: 328
Pages
(1998-04)
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Women in Old Norse Society
scholarly yet highly readable Paganism lasted much longer in Scandinavia than therest of Europe, which meant women there enjoyed a more equal relationshipwith men for a considerably longer time. Jochens explores thePagan-Christian conflict very fairly, looking at both the advantages anddisadvantages the shift to Christianity brought for women. For example, inpagan times women had little say in whom they married, and Christianitybrought the advantage of female consent. Jochens looks in great detail atimportant female issues such as marriage, reproduction, leisure and work.Especially fascinating is the "economics of homespun," or howwomen's economic contribution of woven cloth eventually became the mainmedium of exchange. One of my favourite aspects of Jochen's writing isher frequent use of Old Norse words, clearly explained, adding afascinating linquistic layer. She references her work meticulously, makingit a very scholarly read, yet it is highly readable for anyone interestedin women's history.
Amazing amount of information |
37. Myths of the Norsemen: Retold from the Old Norse Poems and Tales (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(1994-11-01)
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Great tales
Fun to read
A Good Intro to Norse Mythology
Good collection of stories. |
38. A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics by Margaret Clunies Ross | |
Hardcover: 296
Pages
(2005-04)
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39. The Syntax of Old Norse: With a survey of the inflectional morphology and a complete bibliography by Jan Terje Faarlund | |
Paperback: 322
Pages
(2008-03-01)
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40. Stolen Thunder: A Norse Myth by Shirley Climo | |
Hardcover: 32
Pages
(1994-03-21)
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nice book |
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