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‎Saga.‎

‎La saga de Sigurdr ou la parole donnée.‎

‎Coll. "Patrimoine Scandinave", Paris, éd. du Cerf, octobre 1989, EDITION ORIGINALE, in-8, cartonnage souple, couv. ill. en brun sur fond balnc éditeur, 294 pp., bibliographie, index, table des matières, « La « Tétralogie » de Wagner a rendu célèbre Siegfried, le héros vainqueur du dragon protégeant l'or du Rhin. Ce héros a hanté les imaginations. Mais le Siegfried de Wagner est une adaptation récente du personnage central de la saga, Sigurdr, personnage mythique des plus anciennes traditions scandinaves, de leur culte des ancêtres, du « père fondateur », ou de leurs récits sacrificiels. Régis Boyer le montre, l'argument historique et l'amplification légendaire de la saga de Sigurdr rejoignent les grandes mythologies. Le héros est avant tout un personnage dont la mort prend un relief saisissant. Sigurdr, et ainsi les « grands hommes », nous ramènent aux archétypes, à un besoin d'adoration et, par le sacré, justifient ce pour quoi nous aimons vivre et acceptons de mourir. Et, avec l'interprétation, Régis Boyer donne ici une nouvelle traduction de la « Völsunga saga". RARE Très bon état, comme neuf ‎

‎Cognac, la saga d'un esprit.‎

‎Saintes, éd. Le Croît Vif, septembre 2012, deuxièe édition revue et corrigée, gd. in-8, cartonnage souple, couv. photo coul. éd., 308 pp., nb. photos en coul. et en noir, belle bibliographie, index, table des matières, "Cognac, la saga d un esprit raconte l histoire d un des alcools les plus connus au monde et donne une vision originale de la profession du cognac d aujourd hui, vue de l intérieur grâce à de nombreux entretiens. Ce livre est la traduction en français de Cognac, the Seductive Saga of the World s Most Coveted Spirit, ouvrage paru en 2005 chez John Wiley (New York). Kyle Jarrard y retrace le développement de la viticulture dans la région depuis le temps des Romains, puis l'avènement de l eau-de-vie au XVIe siècle, l expansion de la distillation au cours des années 1600, ainsi que l âge d or du cognac au milieu du XIXe siècle. Tout au long du chemin, il révèle comment les distillateurs charentais ont surmonté l agonie du vignoble après la crise du phylloxéra, il dévoile les facettes parfois curieuses de l occupation allemande et parcourt tous les défis qui ont secoué la région de production, en particulier celui de l excellente forme de l après-guerre quand le marché s est étendu aux quatre coins du monde. Le livre offre aussi un regard unique sur l état de l art actuel de l industrie du cognac, vécu dans les coulisses des plus petits producteurs jusqu aux plus renommés, les Hennessy, Courvoisier, Martell, Rémy Martin, Delamain et autres marques légendaires. Sa rencontre avec tous les métiers connexes, qu ils soient fabricants de barriques de chêne, de bouchons ou d étiquettes, ouvre en grand les portes sur cette eau-de-vie universellement appréciée et pourtant souvent repliée sur elle-même. Un regard aigu sur une histoire turbulente, parvenue aujourd hui à un marché mondial, ainsi apparaît Cognac, la saga d un esprit…". RARE Très bon état ‎

‎Christendoms Saga. Hliodane um thad hvornenn Christen Tru kom fyrst a Island/ at forlage thes haloflega Herru/ Olufs Tryggvason ar Noregs Kongs. Cum gratia & Privilegio Sacrae Regiae Maiestatis Daniae & Norvegiae. - [ONE OF THE FIRST SAGAS PRINTED ON ICELAND]‎

‎Skalhollt, Hendrik Kruse, 1688. 4to. Bound in a nice newer, simple full limp vellum binding. Very light brownspotting. An excellent, clean, and fresh copy. Title-page with wide woodcut ornamental border, verso with full-page woodcut portrait of Olav Tryggvason. (4), 25, (2) pp. ‎

‎The rare editio princeps of 'Christendoms Saga' or 'Kristni saga', constituting one of the very first sagas printed on Iceland. The printing of 'Christendoms Saga' in 1688 was a significant event in the history of Icelandic literature and culture. The saga is a historical narrative of the introduction of Christianity to Iceland in the 10th century and had been orally transmitted for centuries. The printing of the saga in 1688 allowed for wider dissemination of the story and cemented the saga's place in Icelandic literary tradition. Iceland's first - and, until 1773, only active - printing press was established around 1530 in Holar, the island's northern episcopal, where it operated until the late seventeenth century. The press came into the private possession of Bishop Gudbrandur Thorlaksson (ca. 1542-1627) and his descendants, several of whom became bishops as well.The printing in Holar was solely centered on religious texts and are of the utmost scarcity and are never found in the trade. In 1648, Brynjolfur Sveinsson (1605-1675), bishop of Iceland's southern diocese Skalholt asked the Danish authorities for permission to establish another printing press to print historical texts and sagas alongside religious books. Not wanting the competition, his northern colleague in Holar intervened to halt this initiative, and nothing came of the plan for a second press nor of the printing of historical subject-matter for the time being. After Thordur Torlaksson (1637-1697), great-grandson of Bishop Gudbrandur Thorlaksson, became bishop in 1674, a monopoly from the King was granted, on April 7th, 1688, to print historical books on Iceland. Shortly after, namely the same year that the grant was given, the present work as well as ""Landnamabok"" and ""Islendingabok"" was printed - all three works being of the utmost scarcity. The printing press remained the sole press in Iceland until 1773. The ""Christendoms Saga"" is a significant piece of literature that provides valuable insights into the social, cultural, and religious transformation of Iceland during that period. The saga begins with the arrival of two Christian missionaries, Thorvald Konradsson and Thangbrandur, who are sent to Iceland by the Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason. The missionaries face stiff resistance from the pagan chieftains who see Christianity as a threat to their traditional way of life ""Whereas many accounts of Iceland's conversion to Christianity occur within the context of longer works, lives of Olaf Tryggvason or Sagas of Icelanders, Kristni saga (i.e. ""Christendoms Saga"") sets out to tell the history of Icelandic Christianity independently, as its opening sentence explicitly states: Nú hefr þat, hversu kristni kom á Ísland 'Now this is the beginning of how Christianity came to Iceland"". (Duke, kristni saga and its sources: some revaluations)""Kristni saga is the only work in which the missions to Iceland form the main subject of the narrative and the organisational principle of the whole"" it shares with Bede’s Ecclesiastical History the distinction of being one of the few works in the Middle Ages which can justly be described as ‘missionary’ history""."" (Grønlie, Introduction to ""Kristni saga, the book of the icelanders""). The present work is based on Jón Erlendsson's copy (AM 105) of Hauksbók (AM 371), a manuscript from the first decade of the 14th century, which is the only version of it preserved, whose main theme is kristnitaka, that is, the beginnings of Christianity in Iceland and the activity of Ísleifur Gissurarson and Gissur Ísleifsson, who were bishops of Skálholt, between 1056-1080 and 1082-1111.Pre-Eighteenth-Century Icelandic prints are in general very rare and are almost never found in the trade. The Skalhollt-prints are of special interest since they were the first in Iceland to print secular and historical works including the sagas thereby making a seminal contribution to preserving the Icelandic cultural heritage. Klose 5485Fiske p. 331, IcF64AA112‎

‎Hobb R. Complete set in advertising semi-super. Cycles: 1. The Saga of the See‎

‎Hobb R. Complete set in advertising semi-super. Cycles: 1. The Saga of the Seer (Book 2). 2. The Saga of the Living Ships (Book 3). 3. The Saga of Fitz and the Shooter (Book 3). 4. The Saga of the Shooter and the Killer (Book 3). 5. The Chronicles of the Rain of Chatches (Book 4). 6. The Son of a Soldier (Book 3). In Russian /Khobb R. Polnyy komplekt v reklamnykh polusuperakh. Tsikly: 1. Saga o vidyashchikh (2 kn). 2. Saga o zhivykh korablyakh (3 kn). 3. Saga o Fittse i Shute (3 kn). 4. Saga o Shute i Ubiytse (3 kn). 5. Khroniki dozhdevy chashchob (4 kn). 6. Syn Soldata (3 kn). Masters of Sword and Magic by M. Eksmo 2010-2022. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb47f9dcc2401f256f.‎

‎La Saga des limousins. Tome 1 : Le seigneur de Châlus (967 - 999).‎

‎La crèche, Geste éditions, 2012, in-8, br., couv. ill. coul. éd., 336 pp., Table, Le premier tome de la saga des Limousins. L'aventure se déroule à la fin du Xe siècle où s'affrantent Lothaire, Louis V, les derniers Carolingiens, puis Hugues Capet et Robert le Pieux. Très bon état ‎