Anders Winroth
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June 2008
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But is it a typo on p. 18, line 7 of the Wordsworth Classics edition: "Do you know the other *was* to ask it" (for "way"). I would think so, but I understand that with Joyce, one should not take such things f ...more "
“Ragnar Hairy-Breeches (Loðbrók), as he came to be known, is portrayed as a heroic fighter, extremely bloodthirsty, and given to extraordinary feats. Nothing about him is normal, not even his death, which becomes a memorable execution. King Ella of Northumbria captured him and”
― The Age of the Vikings
― The Age of the Vikings
“In contrast, I argue that their violence, seen in broad historical context, was no worse than that of others in a savage time, when heroes like Charlemagne (d. 814) killed and plundered on a much greater scale than the northern raiders.”
― The Age of the Vikings
― The Age of the Vikings
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From the sublime to the abstruse, from the bestsellers to the rightly unknown. To read the winners of the Nobel Prize in literature is a roller coaste ...more