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The Saga of the Jomsvikings by Lee M. Hollander

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The Saga of the Jomsvikings

Lee M. Hollander, Anonymous

University of Texas Press · Print & ebook · December 1, 1988

Reading lane: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Historical Fiction / Medieval

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Authors
Lee M. Hollander, Anonymous
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Published
December 1, 1988
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Historical Fiction / Medieval · Scandinavian Literary Collections
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Historical Fiction / Medieval

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In A.D. 986, Earl Hákon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjórunga 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 Jómsvikings, the famed members of a warrior community that f...

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In A.D. 986, Earl Hákon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjórunga 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 Jómsvikings, 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.

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