Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
โ Scribed by Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel
- Book ID
- 107083788
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780007323074
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โฆ Synopsis
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudr?n is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and '-30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien's extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the V?lsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien.
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### Product Description The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudr?n, and the Fall of the Niflungs. ''Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now