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Icelandic Folktales and Legends by Jacqueline Simpson; Magnus Magnusson (Foreword by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion
This book of 85 stories from medieval Iceland illustrates a variety of supernatural beliefs concerning elves, gigantic trolls, water monsters, ghosts, wizards and black magic rites, buried treasure and religious tales. The stories are intimately linked to the landscape and reflect the hopes, fears, hard ...Show more
Laxdaela Saga by Magnus Magnusson
$16.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics S.
Written around 1245 by an unknown author, the Laxdaela Saga is an extraordinary tale of conflicting kinships and passionate love, and one of the most compelling works of Icelandic literature. Covering 150 years in the lives of the inhabitants of the community of Laxriverdale, the saga focuses primarily ...Show more
Scotland: the Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Hailed as a "vast, superb history that] relates Scotland's past over a dozen millennia" (Kirkus Reviews), Magnusson draws on a great deal of modern scholarship to redefine a nation's history. He charts the long struggle toward nationhood, explores the roots of the original Scots, and examines the extent ...Show more
The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness; Jane Smiley (Introduction by); Magnus Magnusson (Translator)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The Fish Can Sing is one of Nobel Prize winner Halld r Laxness's most beloved novels, a poignant coming-of-age tale marked with his peculiar blend of light irony and dark humor. The orphan Alfgrimur has spent an idyllic childhood sheltered in the simple turf cottage of a generous and eccentric elderly c ...Show more
World Light by Halldór Kiljan Laxness; Magnus Magnusson (Translator); Sven Birkerts (Introduction by)
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
As an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation- the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are ...Show more
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