The Elder Edda

Informationen zum Autor Andy Orchard (Translator) Andy Orchard is an academic focusing on Old English, Norse, and Celtic literature. He is Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, the same position once held by J.R.R. Tolkien. He lives in Oxford with his wife and children. Klappentext Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Zusammenfassung Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Product details

• Authors: Anonym, Anonymous, Anonymus, Andrew Orchard, Andy Orchard
• Assisted by: Petra Borner (Illustration), Andrew Orchard (Editor), Andrew Orchard (Introduction), Andrew Orchard (Translation), Andy Orchard (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2013
• EAN: 9780141393728
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139372-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Legends from the Ancient North; Penguin Classics; Legends from the Ancient North
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian, POETRY / Medieval, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Epic, Folklore, myths and legends, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Icelandic and Old Norse sagas