Slaying, pillaging, burning, ravishing, and thus gratifying a laudable taste for adventure
Tom Shippey, 8 June 1995
Northern Antiquity: The Post-Medieval Reception of Edda and Saga
edited by Andrew Wawn.
Hisarlik, 342 pp., £35, October 1994,1 874312 18 4 Show More
edited by Andrew Wawn.
Hisarlik, 342 pp., £35, October 1994,
Heritage and Prophecy: Grundtvig and the English-Speaking World
edited by A.M. Allchin.
Canterbury, 330 pp., £25, January 1994,9781853110856 Show More
edited by A.M. Allchin.
Canterbury, 330 pp., £25, January 1994,
“... history’ of Edda and saga, perhaps especially in England though more ominously elsewhere. Andrew Wawn prefaces his collection with a 19th-century sketch of the great translator Sir George Webbe Dasent: Of Herculean height and strength ... he resembled a Viking of old, and such I conceive he at times supposed himself to be ... He was two ... ”
