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By Jesse L. Byock (trans)

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9780141393681 | Reissue edition (Penguin Classics, October 29, 2013), cover price $14.00

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The Saga of the Volsungs is an Icelandic prose epic whose anonymous thirteenth-century author based his story on the legends of Old Scandinavian folk culture. A trove of traditional lore, it tells of love, jealousy, vengeance, war, and the mythic deeds of the dragonslayer, Sigurd the Volsung.The Saga is of special interest to admirers of Richard Wagner, who drew heavily upon this Norse source in writing his Ring Cycle. With its magical ring acquired by the hero, and the sword to be reforged, the saga has also been a primary source for writers of fantasy such as J. R. R. Tolkien and romantics such as William Morris.Byock's comprehensive introduction explores the history, legends, and myths contained in the saga and traces the development of a narrative that reaches back to the period of the great folk migrations in Europe when the Roman Empire collapsed.
By Jesse L. Byock (trans)

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9780520066830 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The Saga of the Volsungs is an Icelandic prose epic whose anonymous thirteenth-century author based his story on the legends of Old Scandinavian folk culture.

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9780520272996 | Univ of California Pr, June 19, 2012, cover price $21.95
9780520232853 | Univ of California Pr, November 19, 2001, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A trove of traditional lore, this Icelandic prose epic tells of love, jealousy, vengeance, war, and the mythic deeds of the dragonslayer, Sigurd the Volsung.
9780140447385 | Penguin Classics, January 1, 2000, cover price $15.00
9780520069046 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $12.95

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9780140291155 | Penguin USA, September 1, 2001, cover price $18.00

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By Jesse L. Byock (editor)

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9780140435931 | Penguin Classics, February 1, 1999, cover price $15.00

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Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society—the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict—is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the Sturlunga saga compilation. This comprehensive study of narrative structure demonstrates that the sagas are complex expressions of medieval social thought. (view table of contents)

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9780520045644 | Univ of California Pr, January 1, 1983, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas.

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9780520082595 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, February 1, 1993, cover price $31.95

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The history of medieval Europe is incomplete if it does not take Iceland into account. Jesse Byock's reassessment of medieval Iceland uses all the available sources—the medieval Icelanders' historical writings, extensive saga literature, and intricate laws—to explore the way Iceland's social order functioned. (view table of contents)

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9780520054202 | Univ of California Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The history of medieval Europe is incomplete if it does not take Iceland into account.

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9780520069541 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, March 1, 1990), cover price $29.95

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