The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue (Gunnlaugs Saga Ormstungu)

The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue (Gunnlaugs Saga Ormstungu)
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Download or read book The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue (Gunnlaugs Saga Ormstungu) written by Anonymous and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue (Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu) is a story of love, rivalry, betrayal, and tragedy set against a backdrop of the changing times of the late Viking age, when poets from Iceland were renowned for their poetic skills and enjoyed special status among the courts of kings and earls throughout the Norse world. Poems praising these kings and earls in verse were received as gifts, in a culture where gift giving was a well established and important means of settling disputes, showing respect, and gaining favour and honour. This book contains the original texts both Old Norse and Icelandic versions with parallel literal word-for-word translations. This second edition includes an expanded word list with over 6,300 definitions. Literal translations show you how the language works, literally, word by word.


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