Excellent copy of this collection of Scandinavian heroic sagas. “ Incorporating legends of Norse gods and heroes, great fires and floods, superhuman Warriors and doomed lovers, these dramatic poems with vivid portraits of powerful characters caught up in passion, ambition, and destiny. Filled with gripping conceptions of the world’s creation and ultimate destruction, the verses chronicle the triumphs and tragedies of a lost mythological past, where words of wisdom and beauty echoed off the steel of waving swords.”

ISBN: 9780486460215