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‎Saga‎

‎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.‎

‎The Egil Saga: The Nyala Saga In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Saga ob Egile. Sag‎

‎The Egil Saga: The Nyala Saga In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Saga ob Egile. Saga o N'yale. Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).Alexandria 2017 808s. 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. SKUalbe4e3ab6ea7db68ae‎

‎La saga d'Harald Fourrure Grise. ‎

‎Genève, Slatkine 1999. In-12 broché, couverture décorée en deux tons. Petits plis et tache en bord inférieur du premier plat. ‎

‎ La saga d'Harald fourrure grise est la chronique d'un règne désastreux. En quinze ans, le petit-fils ruine l'œuvre du grand roi fondateur, Harald aux beaux cheveux. De son grand-père, il n'a pas la composante odinique du grand guerrier conquérant. Le bruissement somptueux des panégyriques skaldiques s'est éteint, et, seules quelques strophes de style conventionnel célèbrent ce souverain incapable de reconquérir les terres jadis soumises et unifiées. Impuissance militaire et paralysie politique caractérisent ce règne de transition. Mais Harald ne remplit pas non plus ses devoirs de monarque garant de la prospérité de ses sujets. Il ne ressemble pas à ces rois vanes pendant le règne desquels les moissons sont fertiles et l'or abondant et ne possède pas non plus la générosité, valeur cardinale du prince. Ce tableau sombre se double d'une analyse tantôt allusive tantôt nette de l'affaiblissement de l'autorité royale. La tentative de reconquête du Trondelag est un échec militaire et consacre la puissance montante des jarls de Hlade, qui prennent le pouvoir en 975. La saga est le dernier acte du déclin amorcé lors de la prise de pouvoir d'Harald hache sanglante! Le règne d'Hàkon le bon (933-960) n'a été qu'un sursis. Rien n'est "soguligr" (= digne d'être narré dans une saga) et l'œuvre n'est que le négatif des grandes sagas. Tout est distanciation et jugement. Le skalde Eyvind est le personnage central et, derrière ses strophes volontiers polémiques, Snorri distille sa propre ironie. On est bien loin de l'historiographie bienveillante de la maison de Norvège. Ici, le regard est critique, souvent à la limite de la satire. C'est ce ton et cette perspective qui confèrent à la saga d'Harald fourrure grise une place originale dans la Heimskringik. ‎

‎Conan. The saga of the noble barbarian. The saga of the great warrior. A set of‎

‎Conan. The saga of the noble barbarian. The saga of the great warrior. A set of twelve books. In Russian /Konan. Saga o blagorodnom varvare. Saga o velikom voitele. Komplekt iz dvenadtsati knig. St. Petersburg: ABC, 1996. Conan. Crown of the cobra. Conan of Kimmeria. Shadow of the Sovereign. Soldier of good fortune. Heavenly sex. Lone wolf. Hand of Crome. Sword for sale. In the desert and jungle. Conan and other immortals. Witch killer. Road in the dark. 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. SKUalb3cd1dcc92e29f5ca.‎