Hrolf Krakis Saga

Author : Poul Anderson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504024397
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hrolf Kraki's Saga written by Poul Anderson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the British Fantasy Award: The ancient legend of the Danish Viking king is retold in a tale of vengeance, battles, magic, and monsters. In the court of the Anglo-Saxon king, a visiting storyteller regales the assembled nobles with the enthralling tale of her faraway land’s most revered hero: the Viking Hrolf Kraki. Born of an incestuous union into a royal family with a history of violence, jealousy, usurpation, and murder, Hrolf assembled a loyal band of the mightiest champions in the realm and expanded his small kingdom through wisdom, courage, and conquest. Unbeaten on the battlefield, his great deeds and victories became legends throughout the North as he ushered in an era of peace and prosperity. But Hrolf’s desire for vengeance was ever the warrior-king’s driving force, as he sought the truth about his father’s murder. This obsession would threaten Hrolf’s life and his rule—and ultimately bring his great kingdom to ruin. Poul Anderson, one of the acknowledged giants of twentieth-century fantasy, employs his unparalleled storytelling talents to bring Denmark’s great Viking king to life. A saga that predates the stories of King Arthur and his knights and Shakespeare’s Hamlet, while echoing the Oedipus and Beowulf myths, the Norse legend of Hrolf Kraki takes on a new and breathtaking richness in this classic novel the Guardian described as “full of thrills.”

Author : Jesse L Byock
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141914092
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki written by Jesse L Byock and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed in medieval Iceland, Hrolf's Saga is one of the greatest of all mythic-legendary sagas, relating half-fantastical events that were said to have occurred in fifth-century Denmark. It tells of the exploits of King Hrolf and of his famous champions, including Bodvar Bjarki, the 'bear-warrior': a powerful figure whose might and bear-like nature are inspired by the same legendary heritage as Beowulf. Depicting a world of wizards, sorceresses and 'berserker' fighters - originally members of a cult of Odin - this is a compelling tale of ancient magic. A work of timeless power and beauty, it offers both a treasury of Icelandic prose and a masterful gathering of epic, cultic memory, traditional folk tale and myths from the Viking age and far earlier.

Author : Poul Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345235626
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Author : Poul Anderson
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ISBN 13 : 9780345235626
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Author : Leszek Paweł Słupecki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788385463276
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavonic Pagan Sanctuaries written by Leszek Paweł Słupecki and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Poul Anderson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497694221
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broken Sword written by Poul Anderson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed fantasy classic of men, elves, and gods is at once breathtakingly exciting and heartbreakingly tragic. Published the same year as The Fellowship of the Ring, Poul Anderson’s novel The Broken Sword draws on similar Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon sources. In his greed for land and power, Orm the Strong slays the family of a Saxon witch—and for his sins, the Northman must pay with his newborn son. Stolen by elves and replaced by a changeling, Skafloc is raised to manhood unaware of his true heritage and treasured for his ability to handle the iron that the elven dare not touch. Meanwhile, the being who supplanted him as Orm’s son grows up angry and embittered by the humanity he has been denied. A pawn in a witch’s vengeance, the creature Valgard will never know love, and consumed by rage, he will commit a murderous act of unspeakable vileness. It is their destiny to finally meet on the field of battle—the man-elf and his dark twin, the monster—when the long-simmering war between elves and trolls finally erupts with a devastating fury. And only the mighty sword Tyrfing, broken by Thor and presented to Skafloc in infancy, can turn the tide in a terrible clashing of faerie folk that will ultimately determine the fate of the old gods. Along with such notables as Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner Poul Anderson is considered one of the masters of speculative fiction. This edition contains the author’s original text.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 114 pages
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Download or read book The Saga of Hrolf Kraki written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hrólfs saga Kraka
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Poul Anderson
Publisher : Le Bélial
ISBN 13 : 2843446090
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Saga de Hrolf Kraki written by Poul Anderson and published by Le Bélial. This book was released on 2014-03-27T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quand Beowulf rencontre Conan... Il est l'héritier des ténèbres. Son père est mort dans un odieux complot. Son grand-père a péri de la main même de son propre frère... Il est le fils du pouvoir. Dans ses veines coule le sang des Skjoldung, souverains d'un Danemark impitoyable et sauvage. Il est Hrolf Kraki, le plus grand...