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The Saga of the Jomsvikings

  • ISBN-13: 9780292776234
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
  • Translated by Lee M. Hollander
  • Price: AUD $50.99
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  • Local release date: 01/03/1989
  • Format: Paperback (191.00mm X 133.00mm) 116 pages Weight: 141g
  • Categories: Literary studies: general [DSB]
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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.
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.
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
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.
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