The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, J. R. R. Tolkien. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, United States, 2009. 377pp.
Quarter black cloth over black boards, gilt spine titles. In fine, unread condition and housed in a fine, unclipped jacket.
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.
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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and 30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the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.
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- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA) (CA)
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- Title
- The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
- Author
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- MYTHHOLGY AND FOLK TALES; LITERATURE;
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