Verlag: University of Toronto Press, Toronto
ISBN 10: 0802021859 ISBN 13: 9780802021854
Anbieter: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Kanada
[0-8020-2185-9] 1975. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 221pp. Red cloth with gilt decoration on the front cover and spine. Notes, indices. The covers are lightly dished and there is a scar on the front panel of the dust jacket from a price sticker. "Egils saga, with its gripping and lucid narrative, is one of the most outstanding literary productionso F Iceland and the European Middle Ages as a whole, of importance for literary crticis, historians and students of medieval culture. Few sagas can match it for its monumental presentation of a central figure, portraying both the inner life and the deeds of the hero, Egil, from early childhood to death". Translated by Christine Fell. (Mythology, Folklore, Mythology, Sagas, Vikings).