{"product_id":"seven-viking-romances","title":"Seven Viking Romances","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSeven Viking Romances\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCombining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse romances. Powerfully inspired works of Icelandic imagination, they relate intriguing, often comical tales of famous kings, difficult gods and women of great beauty, goodness or cunning. The tales plunder a wide range of earlier literature from Homer to the French romances—as in the tale of the wandering hero Arrow-Odd, which combines several older legends, or Egil and Asmund, where the story of Odysseus and the Cyclops is skilfully adapted into a traditional Norse legend. These are among the most outrageous, delightful and exhilarating tales in all Icelandic literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.10 \"W x \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e7.76 \"H x \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e0.68 \"D \u003c\/span\u003e| \u003cspan\u003e304 pages Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eABOUT THE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eAUTHOR(S):\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"full_description\" id=\"full_description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"authors-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"authors-item clearfix\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eVarious\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"authors-item clearfix\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor: Hermann Palsson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"authors-item clearfix\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eAuthor: Peter Economy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"authors-item clearfix\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"authors-item clearfix\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tad-author-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='tad-author-content\" false'\u003eThe improbable life story of Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) included a peculiarly gothic childhood in Ireland during which he was successively abandoned by his mother, his father and his guardian; two decades in the United States, where he worked as a journalist and was sacked for marrying a former slave; and a long period in Japan, where he married a Japanese woman and wrote about Japanese society and aesthetics for a Western readership. His ghost stories, which were drawn from Japanese folklore and influenced by Buddhist beliefs, appeared in collections throughout the 1890s and 1900s. He is a much celebrated figure in Japan.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tad-author-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tad-author-name\"\u003eHermann Pálsson\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tad-author-name\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='tad-author-content\" false'\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHermann Palsson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estudied Icelandic at the University of Iceland and Celtic at University College, Dublin. He was a professor of Icelandic at the University of Edinburgh and a general editor at the New Saga Library. Palsson wrote many books on the history and literature of medieval Iceland. He died in 2003.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tad-author-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tad-author-name\"\u003ePaul Edwards\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tad-author-name\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='tad-author-content\" false'\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePeter Economy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the associate editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeader to Leader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emagazine and an online expert for Allbusiness.com. 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