Andy Orchard: 2 books
Pride and Prodigies
Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by...
The Elder Edda
A Book of Viking Lore
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Völsung family, the Hel-ride of Brynhild and the cruelty of Atli the Hun....