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A genuinely unique European treasure, this volume bristles with all 33 of Rognvaldr's verses from the Orkneyinga Saga. While full of highly stylised, often grotesque images, the poems convey the skill, vigour and daring of the original.

Rich narratives and old Norse mythology blend with familiar place-names and landscapes to create a peculiarly alluring, sometime comic, world that never quite settles around the reader, as if time travel is possible from a favourite armchair.



Table of Contents
Preface by Kevin Crossley-Holland / 7 Translator's Introduction / 11 Early Poems / 27 Incidents in the Earl's Daily Life / 33 Shetland Shipwreck / 43 The Lady Ermingerd / 51 Seafaring and Piracy / 61 Jerusalem / 69 Sailing to Byzantium / 75 Illness, Loss / 79 In Praise of Rognvaldr / 83 Notes on the Translation / 91 Biographical Notes / 93 Translator's Acknowledgements / 95

Crimsoning the Eagle's Claw

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      Publisher Arc Publications
      Published 29 September 2014
      ISBN-13 9781908376602
      978-1908376602
      ISBN-10 1908376600

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A genuinely unique European treasure, this volume bristles with all 33 of Rognvaldr's verses from the Orkneyinga Saga. While full of highly stylised, often grotesque images, the poems convey the skill, vigour and daring of the original.

      Rich narratives and old Norse mythology blend with familiar place-names and landscapes to create a peculiarly alluring, sometime comic, world that never quite settles around the reader, as if time travel is possible from a favourite armchair.



      Table of Contents
      Preface by Kevin Crossley-Holland / 7 Translator's Introduction / 11 Early Poems / 27 Incidents in the Earl's Daily Life / 33 Shetland Shipwreck / 43 The Lady Ermingerd / 51 Seafaring and Piracy / 61 Jerusalem / 69 Sailing to Byzantium / 75 Illness, Loss / 79 In Praise of Rognvaldr / 83 Notes on the Translation / 91 Biographical Notes / 93 Translator's Acknowledgements / 95

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