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Saga Six Pack 5 - Erling the Bold, Big Peter and Little Peter, The Saga of Harald Hardrade, The Master Thief, A Sea Queen's Sailing and Bruin and Reynard
2015
First Published
3.90
Average Rating
466
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“A tale is but half told when only one person tells it.”

  • The Saga of Grettir the Strong. Saga Six Pack 5 is a Viking-sized selection of Scandinavian super-stories: Erling the Bold by R. M. Ballantyne Big Peter and Little Peter by George Webbe Dasent The Saga of Harald Hardrade by Snorri Sturluson The Master Thief by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen A Sea Queen's Sailing by Charles W. Whistler Bruin and Reynard by Jørgen Engebretsen Image gallery includes: Surt, The Giant with the Flaming Sword by John Charles Dollman. 16th-century depiction of Norse gods by Olaus Magnus. Wotan takes leave of Brunhild by Konrad Dielitz. Thor and the Midgard Serpent by Emil Doepler. Loki breaks free at the onset of Ragnarök by Ernst H. Walther. A scene from the last phase of Ragnarök, after Surtr has engulfed the world with fire by Emil Doepler. The new world that rises after Ragnarök by Emil Doepler. Then the Awful Fight Began by George Wright, 1908.
Avg Rating
3.90
Number of Ratings
31
5 STARS
45%
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3 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author

George Webbe Dasent
Author · 2 books

Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817—1896) was a translator of folk tales and contributor to The Times. Dasent was born 22 May 1817 at St. Vincent, West Indies, the son of the attorney general, John Roche Dasent. His mother was the second wife of his father, Charlotte Martha was the daughter of Captain Alexander Burrowes Irwin. He was educated at Westminster School, King's College London, and Oxford University, where he was a contemporary of J.T. Delane, whose friend he had become at King's College. On leaving the university in 1840 he was appointed to a diplomatic post in Stockholm, Sweden. There he met Jakob Grimm, at whose recommendation he first became interested in Scandinavian literature and mythology. In 1842 he published the first result of his studies, an English translation of The Prose or Younger Edda. In the following year he translated Rask's Grammar of the Icelandic or Old-Norse Tongue, taken from the Swedish. Returning to England in 1845 he became assistant editor of The Times under Delane, whose sister he married; but he still continued his Scandinavian studies, publishing translations of various Norse stories. He also read for the Bar and was called in 1852. In 1853 he was appointed professor of English literature and modern history at King's College London and in 1859 he translated Popular Tales from the Norse (Norske Folkeeventyr) by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, including in it an "Introductory Essay on the Origin and Diffusion of Popular Tales." Perhaps his most well-known work, The Story of Burnt Njal, a translation of the Icelandic Njal's Saga that he had first attempted while in Stockholm, was issued in 1861. This was followed in 1861-1862 with a visit to Iceland, where he was hailed in Reykjavík as one of the saga lovers who had strengthened ties between the English and Norse. Subsequent to that visit, he published in 1866 his translation of Gisli the Outlaw from the Icelandic. Another well-known work is East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon, a collection of Norwegian fairy stories (including the tale of that name), charmingly translated from Norwegian Folktales by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. In 1870 he was appointed a civil service commissioner and consequently resigned his post at The Times. In 1876 he was knighted in England, though he was already a Danish knight. Dasent retired from the public service in 1892 and died at Ascot on the 11th of June, 1896. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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