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Icelandic Folktales And Legends (Revealing History (Paperback))

AUTHOR: Magnus Magnusson (Foreword), Jacqueline Simpson
ISBN: 0752430459
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Icelandic Folktales And Legends (Revealing History (Paperback))
- Book Review, by Magnus Magnusson (Foreword), Jacqueline Simpson

Book Description
A compilation of enticing tales from Iceland. Foreword by Magnus Magnusson.

Language Notes
Text: English, Icelandic (translation)

From the Publisher
This book of 85 stories from medieval Iceland illustrates a variety of supernatural beliefs concerning elves, gigantic trolls, water monsters, ghosts, wizards and black magic rites, buried treasure and religious tales. The stories are intimately linked to the landscape and reflect the hopes, fears, hardships and preoccupations of everyday life. The translation of each tale is accompanied by an explanatory introduction and notes. Jacqueline Simpson is one of Britain’s most distinguished folklorists and Old Norse scholars.

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Book Review

Icelandic Folktales And Legends (Revealing History (Paperback))
- Book Reviews, by Magnus Magnusson (Foreword), Jacqueline Simpson

Icelandic Folktales and Legends

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This book of 85 stories from medieval Iceland illustrates a variety of supernatural beliefs concerning elves, gigantic trolls, water monsters, ghosts, wizards and black magic rites, buried treasure and religious tales. The stories are intimately linked to the landscape and reflect the hopes, fears, hardships and preoccupations of everyday life. The translation of each tale is accompanied by an explanatory introduction and notes.

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Jacqueline Simpson is one of Britain’s most distinguished folklorists and Old Norse scholars.

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