Author: Gunnlaugs Saga OrmstunguPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 91
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Gunnlaugs Saga Ormstungu
Author: Gunnlaugs Saga OrmstunguPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 91
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The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue (Gunnlaugs Saga Ormstungu)
Author: Matthew Leigh EMBLETONPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 236
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The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue (Gunnlaugs Saga Ormstungu) is the story of a promising young man named Gunnlaug who achieves fame for his bravery and poetry in the courts of kings and earls throughout the Norse world. The story tells of poems praising kings and earls in verses received as gifts, in a culture where gift giving was a well established and important means of settling disputes, showing respect, and gaining favour and honour. However, a prophetic dream foretells the love rivalry and betrayal between Gunnlaugr Ormstunga, Hrafn Önundarson, and Helga the Fair, ending in tragedy. These stories survived by oral tradition over several centuries before being written down at the beginning of the 14th Century. It is based on two different manuscripts, one from c1270 and the other from c1300, preserved in its complete form in the Sögubók (Holm. Perg. 18 4to). This book is designed to be of use to anyone studying or with a keen interest in Old Norse or Old Icelandic, clearly showing how these languages work, and the influence of these languages on English. Both Old Norse and Old Icelandic versions are included. This edition is laid out in three columns, the original text, a literal word-for-word translation, and a modern translation. Also included is a word list with over 1,000 definitions.
The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue
Author: The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue (Gunnlaugs Saga Ormstungu)
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 216
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The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue (Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu) is a story of love, rivalry, betrayal, and tragedy set against a backdrop of the changing times of the late Viking age, when poets from Iceland were renowned for their poetic skills and enjoyed special status among the courts of kings and earls throughout the Norse world. Poems praising these kings and earls in verse were received as gifts, in a culture where gift giving was a well established and important means of settling disputes, showing respect, and gaining favour and honour. This book contains the original texts both Old Norse and Icelandic versions with parallel literal word-for-word translations. This second edition includes an expanded word list with over 6,300 definitions. Literal translations show you how the language works, literally, word by word.
The Saga of Gunnlaug Snake-Tongue
Author: Alan BoucherPublisher:
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Category : Icelandic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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The Saga of Gunnlaugur Snake's Tongue
Author: E. Paul DurrenbergerPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838634653
Category : Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Having sworn to disgrace Gunnlaugur, Hrafn returns to Iceland to ask for Helga in marriage as the three years she was to wait have passed. Delayed in his travels, Gunnlaugur returns the day of the wedding but can not stop it. Gunnlaugur challenges Hrafn to the last duel ever fought in Iceland, but kinsmen and friends of both prevent the fight. The two travel to Sweden where they meet and fight. Both die as foretold in Thorsteinn's dream. Dreaming of Gunnlaugur, Helga dies in the arms of her second husband, a third poet, as the dream foretold. There the saga ends. In addition to the translation of the saga, this book contains an anthropological analysis of the saga and saga writing in medieval Iceland. Beyond relating events, this saga, like others of its genre, is an expression of the totemic system of the primitive society that produced it, a stratified society without the institutions of a state.
The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue
Author: Matthew Leigh EMBLETONPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue is a story of love, rivalry, betrayal, and tragedy set against a backdrop of the changing times of the late Viking age, when poets from Iceland were renowned for their poetic skills and enjoyed special status among the courts of kings and earls throughout the Norse world. Poems praising these kings and earls in verse were received as gifts, in a culture where gift giving was a well established and important means of settling disputes, showing respect, and gaining favour and honour. This book contains the original texts, both Old Norse and Icelandic versions, with parallel literal word-for-word translations. Also included is a Word List with over 2,500 definitions. Matthew Leigh Embleton is a language and history enthusiast, musician, composer, and producer living in London. www.matthewleighembleton.co.uk
Gunnlaugs Saga Ormstungu. Edited with Introduction and Notes by P.G. Foote. (The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue. Translated by R. Quirk.) Eng. & Icelandic
Author: Peter FooteThe Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue
Author: Peter FootePublisher:
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Category : Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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