SAGAN AF GUNNLAUGI ORMSTUNGU OK SKALLD-RAFNI, SIVE GUNNLAUGI VERMILINGVIS & RAFNIS POETÆ VITA

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[8],xxxii,318,[81]pp. plus two folding plates, printed on light blue paper. Illustrations in text. Quarto. Original drab paper boards, printed paper label. Spine split but holding, paper chipped. Minor foxing to first and last few leaves, a few gatherings loose from stitching. Most of second half of text unopened; untrimmed. Good plus. A scholarly edition of Gunnlaugi's Saga, "A love story of great sentimental charm" (EB). Written in Icelandic and Latin, the work is extensively annotated and includes a copious dictionary. The folding plates are of a meeting house and banquet hall from the period 1000 A.D., when the Sagas were actually recited. The Icelandic Sagas hold the seed for all early Norse literature and history and are one of the great sources for Western literature, influencing such works as the Arthurian legends and the operas of Wagner. The editor has contributed extensive footnotes, sometimes longer than the text itself, and the appendix includes several genealogies. BRUNET V, p.28. FISKE I:211. GRAESSE VI, p.216. EB XXIII, p.1001. N° de ref. del artículo WRCAM47287

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