Sagas
Völsungasaga
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William Morris, Anonymoustranslated Bywilliam Morris, William James Mcglothlin and Anonymoustranslated By William Morris
The 13th century Icelandic Völsungasaga is usually read by people studying the Poetic Edda or Wagner's Ring - which obscures the fact i…
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji)
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Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the …
Nibelungenlied
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Anonymous
The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfri…
The Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation)
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Snorri Sturleson
Also known as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, the Prose Edda is a three-part work composed or at least compiled by thirteenth-century Ice…
The Mabinogion, Volume 1
Read by Martin Geeson
William James Mcglothlin and Anonymoustranslated By Charlotte Guest
Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest:On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flo…
The Elder Edda (Bray Translation)
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Sæmund Sigfusson
The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems dating from the thirteenth century CE. Though no two translators or editors seem…
Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes (Kirby translation)
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Elias Lönnrot
The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. It…
The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald
Read by Phil Schempf
Anonymoustranslated Bywilliam Morris, William James Mcglothlin and Anonymoustranslated By William Morris
A tale from Iceland, 800 years ago.In a dream of quarrels and deathThe birth of fair Helga is toldCross the north seas ventured for fameAt t…
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow
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Allen French
Rolf, a youth in early Christian Iceland, loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to the schemes of a greedy neig…
By Right of Conquest; Or, With Cortez in Mexico
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G. A. Henty
In perhaps the most audacious military enterprise in the history of human conquest, Cortez, with only a few hundred men, conquered a civili…
In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2)
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John Galsworthy
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. In Chancery is…
Amadis of Gaul
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Vasco De Lobeira
Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th…
The Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)
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Elias Lönnrot
This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seab…
The Fall of the Nibelungs
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Unknowntranslated Bymargaret Armour, Translated Bymargaret Armour and Unknowntranslated By Margaret Armour
"The Fall of the Nibelungs" is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the "Nibelungenlied&q…
The Frithiof Saga
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Ferdinand Schmidt
Iceland is the home of the Saga, a form of literature which includes the telling of the story of a hero’s life and adventures in a fixed, re…
Finnish Legends
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R. Eivind
One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family …
The Norwegian Fairy Book
Read by Paul Harvey
Klara Stroebe
These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, have been handed down by hinds and huntsmen, wood choppers and fisher f…
Legends of Norseland
Read by Ryan Williams
Mara L. Pratt
Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames of Ragnarok…
The World’s Story Volume VIII: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and …
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Eva March Tappan
This is the eighth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…
Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages
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Wilhelm Wägner
This volume contains the principal hero-lays of the six great epic cycles of the Teutonic Middle Ages: The Langobardian Legends, the Amelung…