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Egil’s Saga is the 10th-century Nordic equivalent of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Translated from the Icelandic with
an introduction, notes and an essay, this is the first time Eddison’s version of this epic heroic saga has been published in paperback.



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EGILS SAGA

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    A Paperback by E. R. Eddison

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 9/11/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780007578092, 978-0007578092
      ISBN10: 0007578091

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Egil’s Saga is the 10th-century Nordic equivalent of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Translated from the Icelandic with
      an introduction, notes and an essay, this is the first time Eddison’s version of this epic heroic saga has been published in paperback.



      Trade Review

      ‘Eddison is unequalled in the vigour, the vividness, and the passionate intensity of his imagining, the brooding sadness that underlies it, and the magnificence of his language – a truly strange and wonderful fantasy world.’ – Ursula K. Le Guin

      ‘The greatest and most convincing writer of invented worlds that I have read.’ – J.R.R. Tolkien

      ‘A new literary species, a new rhetoric, a new climate of the imagination.’ – C.S. Lewis

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