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Wales gjbdt Jones, Gwyn. Background to Dylan Thomas and other Explorations. Oxford University Press, 1992, 219p, index. Very good to fine in like dj. Essays on Welsh and Viking matters by this well-known Viking expert. $16.50 Box 30

Iceland 1004 (Norroena Society). (Icelandic sagas). Snorri Sturluson. The Heimskringla, a history of the Norse kings. Done into English out of the Icelandic by Samuel Laing, esq., with revised notes by Hon. Rasmus B. Anderson. Three Volumes. London/ New York: Norroena Society, 1906, Paged continuously: Volume I:. ix, 358 p.; v. 2; 5 p. l., 299-618p, Volume III: viii, 717-1070p, index. 1906 Viking edition, 650 copies printed, #25 of the 650. Some light shelf wear, nice copy, green cloth, paper label, top edge gilt, deckled paper edges. Some pages still uncut. ******Volume I only******. $50.00

Iceland 1005 (Norroena Society). (Icelandic sagas). Snorri Sturluson. The Heimskringla, a history of the Norse kings. Done into English out of the Icelandic by Samuel Laing, esq., with revised notes by Hon. Rasmus B. Anderson. Three Volumes. London/ New York: Norroena Society, 1906, Paged continuously: Volume I:. ix, 358 p.; v. 2; 5 p. l., 299-618p, Volume III: viii, 717-1070 pages, index. 1906 Viking edition, 650 copies printed, #25 of the 650. Some light shelf wear, nice copy, green cloth, paper label, top edge gilt, deckled paper edges. Some pages still uncut. Volume III only $50.00

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Sawyer, P. H. Kings and Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe, A.D. 700-1100. London and New York: Methuen & Company, 1982, 182 pages, illus, 16 plates, bib, index. Very good in very good dust jacket. $5.00 Box A 110

Iceland 1002 (Norroena Society). (Icelandic sagas). Romances and epics of our northern ancestors, Norse, Celt and Teuton. Translated from the works of Dr. W. Wagner. With introduction by W.S.W. Anson. Rasmus B. Anderson, editor in chief; J.W. Buel, managing editor. London & New York: Norroena Society, 1906, 4 p. l., iii-vi, 343 p. col. front., 8 plates. Some light shelf wear, nice copy, green cloth, paper label, top edge gilt, deckled paper edges. Many pages till uncut. Viking edition, limited to 650 copies printed, this is Number 25 of the 650.
Contents: Introduction.--The Amelungs.--Legend of Dietrich and Hildebrand.—The Nibelung story.--The Hegeling legend.--The legend of Beowulf.—Legends of the Holy Grail.--Legend of Lohengrin.--Romance of Tristram and Isolde.

Iceland 004 (Norroena Society). (Icelandic sagas). The Volsunga saga. Translated from the Icelandic by Eirikr Magnusson and William M. Morris; with introduction by H. Halliday Sparling, supplemented with Legends of the Wagner Trilogy by Jessie L. Weston; and Old Norse Sagas kindred to that of the Volsungs and Niblung Tale. Rasmus B. Anderson, editor in chief; J.W. Buel, managing editor. London/ New York: Norroena Society, 1906, vi, 340 p., [4] leaves of plates: illus. 1906 Viking edition, 650 copies printed, #25 of the 650. Some light shelf wear, very nice copy, green cloth, paper label, top edge gilt, deckled paper edges. Many pages still uncut.
The Völsunga saga (often referred to in English as the Volsunga Saga or Saga of the Völsungs) is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century poetic rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan (including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and destruction of the Burgundians). It is one of the most famous legendary sagas, and an example… Read More

Scotland ljws Leirfall, Jon. West over sea: reminders of Norse ascendency from Shetland to Dublin. Translated by Kenneth Young from the Norwegian Vest i Havet. Sandwick, Shetland Islands: Thule Press, 1979, 159p, illus. Very nice copy in dust jacket. $16.50 Box A 114

Iceland 1007 (Norroena Society). Saxo Grammaticus, (ca. 1150 – ca. 1220). The nine books of the Danish history of Saxo Grammaticus. Translated by Oliver Elton ... with some considerations on Saxo's sources, historical methods, and folk-lore, by Frederick York-Powell... Hon. Rasmus B. Anderson... editor in chief; J. W. Buel, Ph.D., managing editor. London/ New York: Norroena Society, 1906, Paged continuously: v. 1; 5 pl., xxiv, 5-293 p.; v. 2; 5 p. l., 299-618p, index. 1906 Viking edition, 650 copies printed, #25 of the 650. Some light shelf wear, very nice copy, green cloth, paper label, top edge gilt, deckled paper edges. ****Volume II only****. $50.00
Saxo Grammaticus (ca. 1150 – ca. 1220), also known as Saxo cognomine Longus, was a Danish historian, theologian and author. He is thought to have been a clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, the main advisor to Valdemar I of Denmark. He is the author of the Gesta Danorum, the first full history of Denmark, from which the legend of… Read More