The Story of Norsemen
Myths, Sagas, Eddic Verse, and Heroic Legends of the Viking NorthBy Allen Mawer, Saemund Sigfusson, Snorri Sturluson, Sturla Þórðarson, Conrad Hjalmar Nordby, Hélène Adeline Guerber, Nora Kershaw, Anonymous
Length132h 21m
About this audiobook
The Story of Norsemen gathers saga narrative, medieval historiography, mythic tradition, and modern historical interpretation into a capacious portrait of the Scandinavian world. Its materials range from accounts of voyages, settlement, kinship, and conflict to reflections on language, place-names, belief, and kingship. Heroic episodes and Icelandic prose histories stand beside explanatory scholarship, allowing the volume to illuminate both the imaginative force of Norse storytelling and the evidentiary challenges of reconstructing the Viking and medieval North. The collection brings together medieval Icelandic voices associated with the preservation of saga and royal-history traditions, including Sæmund Sigfússon, Snorri Sturluson, and Sturla Þórðarson, with later scholars and popularizers such as Allen Mawer, Conrad Hjalmar Nordby, Hélène Adeline Guerber, and Nora Kershaw. Anonymous materials further evoke the communal, orally inflected character of Nordic tradition. Across these contributors, philology, antiquarian inquiry, and literary retelling converge with the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century revival of interest in Old Norse culture. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this volume offers an unusually rich entry into Norse civilization through multiple genres and historical lenses. Readers will find both an educational guide to a formative European tradition and a stimulating dialogue between inherited texts and modern interpretation.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length132 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 1, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Collected Works of Knut Hamsun (Annotated)
2The Story of Norsemen
3History of the Vikings
4Introduction
5Chapter I Causes of the Viking Movement
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6Chapter II The Viking Movement Down to the Middle of the 9th Century
7Chapter III The Vikings in England to the Death of Harthacnut
8Chapter IV The Vikings in the Frankish Empire to the Founding of Normandy (911)
9Chapter V The Vikings in Ireland to the Battle of Clontarf (1014)
10Chapter VI The Vikings in the Orkneys, Scotland, the Western Islands and Man
11Chapter VII The Vikings in Baltic Lands and Russia
12Chapter VIII Viking Civilisation
13Chapter IX Scandinavian Influence in the Orkneys, Shetlands, the Western Islands and Man
14Chapter X Scandinavian Influence in Ireland
15Chapter XI Scandinavian Influence in England
16Chapter XII Scandinavian Influence in the Empire and Iceland
17Norse Mythology
18Chapter I: The Beginning
19Myths of Creation
20Ymir and Audhumla
21Odin, Vili, and Ve
22The Creation of the Earth
23Mani and Sol
24Dwarfs and Elves
25The Creation of Man
26The Tree Yggdrasil
27The Bridge Bifröst
28The Vanas
29Chapter II: Odin
30The Father of Gods and Men
31Odin’s Personal Appearance
32Valhalla
33The Feast of the Heroes
34Sleipnir
35The Wild Hunt
36The Pied Piper
37Bishop Hatto
38Irmin
39Mimir’s Well
40Odin and Vafthrudnir
41Invention of Runes
42Geirrod and Agnar
43May-Day Festivals
44The Historical Odin
45Chapter III: Frigga
46The Queen of the Gods
47The Stolen Gold
48Odin Outwitted
49Fulla
50Gna
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