The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun

Tolkien, J.R.R. Edited by Christopher Tolkien

ISBN 10: 0547273428 / ISBN 13: 9780547273426

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston- New York, 2009

About this Item

First American Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 377 pages with illustrations, and dustjacket art by Bill Sanderson. Pictorial dustjacket over black cloth boards. Glossy, color frontispiece showing page from the manuscript of the New Lay of Gudrun. First publication of two closely related poems based on the great legend of Northern Antiquity. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston- New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0547273428
• ISBN 13: 9780547273426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Bill Sanderson
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien.

About the Authors

J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892–1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.

CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN is the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. Appointed by Tolkien to be his literary executor, he has devoted himself to the editing and publication of unpublished writings, notably The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth.