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Warrior Lore: Scandinavian Ballads

by Ian Cumpstey
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780957612013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Northern Displayers, Skadi Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Northern Displayers, Skadi Press
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  • Pages: 78
  • Original Price: GBP 10.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 105 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional

The medieval Scandinavian ballads in this collection tell stories of champions and fighters, vikings, and trolls, drawing on Norse mythology and heroic legend. There are riddles, and there are appearances from Thor, Loki, Sigurd, and other figures from the myths of the Edda and from history.

Narrative ballads were part of an oral folk music tradition in Scandinavia, and were first written down around 1600, although the ballads themselves are older. These new English verse translations are mainly based on Swedish tradition. The hero Widrik Waylandsson comes face to face with a troll in the forest. Thor resorts to cross-dressing in a bid to recover his stolen hammer. The daughter of a King of Sweden is abducted from a convent in the Swedish countryside. A young fighter has to show off his prowess in skiing and shooting for King Harald Hardrada. And more...

Cumpstey, Ian: - Ian Cumpstey lived and worked in Sweden for around eight years. He has now returned to England, and lives in Cumbria. He is an associate member of the Swedish to English literary translators association. He has published three collections of translations of Scandinavian folk ballads: Lord Peter and Little Kerstin (2013), Warrior Lore (2014), and The Faraway North (2016); also a translation from the Swedish of The Saga of Didrik of Bern (2017); and also a selection of retellings of legends from Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum: Stories from Saxo (2019).

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