The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
by Tolkien, J. R. R. (edited by Christopher Tolkien)
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- Hardcover
- first
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- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0547273428
- ISBN 13
- 9780547273426
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About This Item
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2009 9780547273426. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Like new. First edition. First Printing. Complete numberline. DW is not price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions or highlighting etc. 377 pages. Illustrated by Bill Sanderson.The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien. .
Synopsis
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and 30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings . It makes available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien.
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2515
- Title
- The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
- Author
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (edited by Christopher Tolkien)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0547273428
- ISBN 13
- 9780547273426
- Publisher
- New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2009 9780547273426
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- 2009-05-05
- Keywords
- Sagas Tolkien Norse Literature Narrative Verse Legends Sigurd Gudrun QSE
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