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Icelandic Folktales & Legends - Simpson, Jacqueline, and Magnusson, Magnus (Foreword by)
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This book of 85 stories from medieval Iceland illustrates a variety of supernatural beliefs concerning elves, gigantic trolls, water monsters, ghosts, wizards and black magic rites, buried treasure and religious tales. The stories are intimately linked to the landscape and reflect the hopes, fears, hardships and preoccupations of everyday life. The translation of each tale is accompanied by an explanatory introduction and notes.

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Icelandic Folktales & Legends 2009, Tempus, Stroud

ISBN-13: 9780752430454

Trade paperback

Icelandic folktales and legends. 1972, University of California Press, Berkeley

ISBN-13: 9780520021167

Hardcover