Lee M. Hollander

The Saga of the Jómsvíkings (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A loyal translation of the medieval Icelandic saga of a strong ruler and his men versus a brotherhood of fierce Viking mercenaries. 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 Jómsvíkings, 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. "[A] famous tale of derring-do... Hollander has been able to do the even more difficult job of faithfully rendering one text into English with complete loyalty to the style and spirit of his original." - Speculum

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780292788749
• Artikelnr.: 63556383

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
1. Knút the Foundling
2. King Gorm's Dreams
3. Earl Harold's Visions
4. Knút Gormsson Is Slain in England
5. King Harold and Earl Hákon Plot Together
6. King Harold Has Áki Tókason Slain
7. Palnir's Marriage. The Rise of Palnatóki
8. Of King Harold and Saumaesa
9. Svein's Dealings with King Harold
10. Palnatóki Slays King Harold and Proclaims Svein King
11. Palnatóki Acknowledges His Arrow
12. The Founding of Jómsborg
13. Of Earl Strút-Harold and Véseti and Their Sons
14. King Svein Arbitrates the Feud
15. Búi, Sigvaldi, and Vagn Join the Jómsvikings
16. Of Palnatóki's Death and Sigvaldi's Ambition
17. Sigvaldi Captures King Svein
18. The Vows of the Jómsvikings
19. Geirmund Escapes and Warns Earl Hákon
20. Preparations for the Battle
21. The Battle
22. The Aftermath
23. The Testing of the Jómsvikings
24. Of Vagn, Sigvaldi, and the Other Jómsvikings