Íslendzk Æventýri (Hugo Gering's Icelandic Legends, Novellas and Tales, Revised 2017)

by Jack Turbes

Overview

This is an English translation of Icelandic tales first compiled by Hugo Gering as "Íslendzk Æventýri; Isländische Legenden, Novellen und Märchen".

From the late 1870's into the early 1880's, Hugo Gering traveled repeatedly to Copenhagen University library where he spent countless hours with the original and often fragmented Icelandic parchment manuscripts from the Arnamagnaean collection to research and compile these tales.

The result was two volumes: the first in a more contemporary Icelandic, and the second in Gering's native German. Now for the first time, this translation presents that compilation of legends, novellas and tales in English.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940033058334
Publisher:	Jack Turbes
Publication date:	01/13/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

In the ongoing process of indexing the Icelandic sagas, I have worked with other forms of Nordic tales from sources not yet available in English. I want to make these stories available to readers who otherwise would not know of them, their fascinating themes and origins.