EAN: 9781580443111

THE SAGA OF THE JÓMSVIKINGS GEBUNDEN

Unique among the Icelandic sagas  part-history  part-fiction  the Saga of the Jomsvikings tells
of a legendary band of vikings  originally Danish  who established an island fortress of the
Baltic coast  launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in
the late tenth century. The saga's account of their stringent warrior code  fatalistic
adherence to their own reckless vows and declarations of extreme courage as they face execution
articulates a remarkable account of what it meant to be a viking. This translation presents the
longest and earliest text of the saga  never before published in English  with a full literary
and historical introduction to this remarkable work.

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