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The Saga of the Volsungs

With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok

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The Saga of the Volsungs

By: Jackson Crawford - translator
Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
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From the translator of the best-selling Poetic Edda comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature.

Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members - including, among others, the dragon slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.

©2017 Jackson Crawford (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Classics Epic Epic Fantasy Fairy Tales Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Sagas Magic Norse Egyptian Mythology Icelandic Sagas Norse Sagas
Fascinating Mythology • Epic Norse Tales • Authentic Pronunciation • Brave Heroes • Historical Connections
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The stories are engaging, enjoyable, and enlightening. The people and monsters are excellent and the differences between Norse sagas and the Greco-Roman sagas is fascinating. While Oedipus runs from his fate, these characters just except prophesy as unavoidable and keep on going. Yet, they look for tricky ways around the oaths they take as inviolable. Boys of good families are taught fighting and strategy by becoming highway robbers for a few year (as long as you don't rob from your own family members). This is a saga, not a novel, so there is some repetition and many, many, similar sounding names for different characters.

This is very difficult material to narrate, and the author's narration was likely the best choice considering everything. This yielded a good, but far from great, result.

Excellent SAGA (not a novel)

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dr jackson is great, his translation and narration are wonderful. can't wait for his havamal transition to be on here.

loved it

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This book feels longer than it is but this is makes it easier to understand how these stories fit together.

Research

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I didn't like Poetic Edda for it reselmbled a lot like The Silmarillion. Maybe that's why I felt The Saga of the Volsungs was better. Many of these stories are filled with action and often were gruesome, which I usually don't like to read. Yet, as Jackson Crawford pointed out in the introduction, you have to understand that the world we live is quite different than the Vikings'. If you didn't grasp that, you may find this book not upto your taste.

Better than Poetic Edda

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loved it, tells the stories well while also giving the reader enough details and outside information to fully understand the sagas and their contents

outstanding

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Loved the narration and the references to the Poetic Edda! The foreword was also very informative.

Great Story and Narration

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Was very satisfying to get a window into what world lies hidden in the runes. Great AMERICAN author 🦅🦅🦅

Beautiful

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My favorite Icelandic saga, and Crawford's new translation is solid, though odd in a few places, but that's typical of most of the translations into English. What's even more odd is that Crawford did the narration himself, and while a good scholar and translator, a professional reader would have been a much better choice.

Great story in a solid translation

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These have some stories that would make you think….. why didn’t the tv show follow this, it’s pretty flopping good!!!

Great for Heathen History

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Very useful information for anyone interested in the histories mentioned in the poems. The narration was also done very well.

Great read

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