Jon Helgason (209 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pamphlet.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 260 pages : illustrations. Boards fresh, corners sharp; inconspicuous erasure from verso of title-page, else contents as new. Minor shelfwear to dust wrapper. 560 grams.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lund, Nordic Academic Press. 2013. 260 pages. Hard-cover with dust-jacket.

8vo, 240pp, illustrated. As new hardback copy in like dust jacket.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Paperback. Condition: New. This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies, From Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic history and its reception by bringing together international authorities on mythology, language, film and cultural studies, as well as on the literature that has dominated critical reception. Collectively, the chapters not only explore the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probe why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. 8vo; 115 pages; Contents clean and complete in original gray printed wrappers. Former owner's stamp inside front wrapper. Published by the Royal Norse Ancient Society. Ancient Icelandic texts - the Saga of Olaf the Great.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAPERBACK. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 44pp, octavo, tight binding, clean throughout, light edge wear. Danish text.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st English thus. The book is in fine condition, in a glossy and bright dustjacket with minuscule spine wear at the head. Jane Victoria Appleton's translation of Jon Karl Helgason's most recent work, tracing ancient Norse mythology's continuing influence on culture and literature. …

Paperback. Condition: New. This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies, From Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic history and its reception by bringing together international authorities on mythology, language, film and cultural studies, as well as on the literature that has dominated critical reception. Collectively, the chapters not only explore the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probe why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies, From Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic history and its reception by bringing together international authorities on mythology, language, film and cultural studies, as well as on the literature that has dominated critical reception. Collectively, the chapters not only explore the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probe why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone. This volume looks at how Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Wrs, frayed. EDDA.

Paperback. Wrs, marked. KING'S MIRROR.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. From Iceland to the Americas: Vinland and Historical Imagination. Book.

PAPERBACK. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 145pp, octavo, tight binding, clean throughout, light edge wear. Danish text.

Paperback. Wrs, worn & frayed. NordiskFilologi A:2. HRAFNKELS saga.

Paperback. Wrs, frayed & browned; cvrs & first/last few pp stained.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition of volume 2 (softcover). 8vo (21cm by 13cm), xix, 103pp. Original printed grey card wrappers with yapped edges. Slight creasing to the edges of the covers, else this book is in very good condition. Text in Danish.

Broschur. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. Einband mit kleineren Randläsruen. Sonst sauberer und guter Zustand. Due to new EU packaging regulations, we are currently unable to ship to many EU countries. Shipping to Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Finland, and the Baltic states is possible. Deliveries to border-based parcel lockers or cross-border parcel forwarding services remain possible. Shipping to all countries outside the EU also remains possible. is Gewicht in Gramm: 300.…

Condition: Good. - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 9 inches wide], softcover bound in brown pictorial stiff suede wrappers. The binding is rubbed & soiled with the extremities chipped & with a number of small stains. 100 & [2] pages plus a large section of black-and-white illustrations. the last signature [i.e. group of pages] is detached. There is an ink inscription on the front endpaper & the rear blanks are foxed. Good. The detached signature includes the last two pages of illustrations and a folding list of the illustrations in English. The rest of the text is in Icelandic.…

Softcover. 82 Seiten. Zustand: Der Buchücken ist beschädigt, mit einer Eintragung auf dem Buchdeckel. Ecken, Kanten, Rücken berieben. sv Gewicht in Gramm: 100.

Condition: New. Echoes of Valhalla is a unique account of modern adaptations of the Icelandic eddas (poems of Norse mythology) and sagas (ancient prose accounts of Viking history, voyages and battles). Num Pages: 240 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: FQ; HRKP5; JFCA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 432. . 2017. Translation. Hardcover. . . . . …

438 s. Publisher's wrappers. (Editiones Arnamagnæanæ Series A, vol 13,2).

Lund; Nordic Academic Press, 2012. 23x15,5 cm. 260 pp. Publisher's boards with printed dustjacket. A fine copy. "Is there a special niche reserved for womens language? This is the theory tested empirically by the authors of Womens language, by means of an exhaustive stylistic analysis of a voluminous body of letters written in five different languages Latin, English, German, French, and Swedish from medieval times through to the long eighteenth century." (rear panel).…

Condition: Gebraucht / Used. 1961. Large octavo; rebound in cloth. id2=2126. Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana volume 25. Original covers bound in. Fine.

Condition: New.