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9780192728586 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 25, 2010, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Oxford Children's Myths and Legends bring you the greatest stories ever told, from around the world and long ago.
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9780192505828, titled "Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas" | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include "Hen-Thorir," "The Vapnfjord Men," "Thorstein Staff-Struck," "Hrafnkel the Priest of Prey," "Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew," "Authun and the Bear," "Gunnlaug Wormtongue," "King Hrolf and his Champions," and the title piece.
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9780199539154, titled "Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas" | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 15, 2009), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include "Hen-Thorir," "The Vapnfjord Men," "Thorstein Staff-Struck," "Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey," "Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew," "Authun and the Bear," "Gunnlaug Wormtongue," "King Hrolf and his Champions," and the title piece.
9780192835307, titled "Eirik the Red: And Other Icelandic Sagas" | Oxford Univ Pr, September 9, 1999, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include "Hen-Thorir," "The Vapnfjord Men," "Thorstein Staff-Struck," "Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey," "Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew," "Authun and the Bear," "Gunnlaug Wormtongue," "King Hrolf and his Champions," and the title piece.
9780192815286 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 21, 1981, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include "Hen-Thorir," "The Vapnfjord Men," "Thorstein Staff-Struck," "Hrafnkel the Priest of Prey," "Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew," "Authun and the Bear," "Gunnlaug Wormtongue," "King Hrolf and his Champions," and the title piece.
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9780460042284 | J M Dent & Sons Ltd, June 1, 1976, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Preface by John UpdikeThe 11 stories of The Mabinogion, first assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, reach far back into the earlier oral traditions of Welsh poetry.
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9781408633755, titled "The Mabinogion" | Lightning Source Inc, November 30, 2007, cover price $29.95 | also contains Mabinogion, The Mabinogion, The Mabinogion, The Mabinogion, The Mabinogion | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
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9780192850638, titled "A History of the Vikings." | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1973, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The history of the Viking peoples and kingdoms, from their half-glimpsed origins and legendary prehistory to the triumphs of Canute, is as exciting a story as has ever been told.
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9780192801340 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 19, 2001), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: "An utterly splendid book, quite the most brilliantly written, balanced, and explanative general work on the Vikings ever to appear in English or in any language.
9780192851390 | Revised edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1984), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The history of the Viking peoples and kingdoms, from their half-glimpsed origins and legendary prehistory to the triumphs of Canute, is as exciting a story as has ever been told.
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9781857151688 | New edition (Gardners Books, March 29, 2001), cover price $19.75 | also contains Mabinogion, The Mabinogion, The Mabinogion, The Mabinogion
9780375411755 | Everymans Library, February 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of eleven medieval Celtic tales includes the stories of Arawn the hunter and his shining hounds, Rhiannon and his man-defeating horse, the warring giant king Bendifeidfran, and Math and Gwydion and their woman of flowers, in a new edition featuring a preface by John Updike.
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9781408633755 | Lightning Source Inc, November 30, 2007, cover price $29.95 | also contains Mabinogion, Mabinogion, The Mabinogion, The Mabinogion, The Mabinogion | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
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9780192751140 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 26, 2001, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: This collection of Welsh legends and folk-tales, read and enjoyed for over forty years, is now being reissued for a new generation of readers.
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9780708314203 | Univ of Wales Pr, May 14, 1999, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Glyn Jones was one of the brilliant first generation of Welsh writers in English which included Dylan Thomas, Rhys Davies and Idris Davies.
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9780708314579 | Univ of Wales Pr, December 8, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Contains all Gwyn Jones' short stories, with those from "The Blue Bed", "The Water Music", "Welsh Heirs", and "Selected Poems".
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9780192741240 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Here are stories from Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Sweden.
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9780192741509, titled "Scandinavian Legends and Folk-Tales" | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1992), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of twenty-four myths and legends, including tales of princes and trolls and tales from the Inglenook and the land of ice and fire
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9780192829405 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1992), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The story-teller has always been an important figure in Welsh society, and this collection draws on a rich and varied literature to present twenty-five of the finest Welsh short stories from this century, many of them original translations.
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Product Description: These twelve essays and addresses range widely from consideration of the nature of Anglo-Welsh literature to incisive commentary on critical approaches to the European novel. Authors such as Dylan Thomas, Richard Savage, and Caradoc Evans (the "best-hated Welshman of them all") come under Jones's sympathetic scrutiny; there is incisive analysis of the Heroic poetry of the Welsh, Norse, and English peoples...read more
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9780198112839 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 2, 1992, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: These twelve essays and addresses range widely from consideration of the nature of Anglo-Welsh literature to incisive commentary on critical approaches to the European novel.
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9780192851604 | New edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1986), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Examines the evidence of Viking exploration in Iceland, Greenland, and North America
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9780686181798 | Reprint edition (Havertown Books, June 1, 1980), cover price $15.00
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9780192118585 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1977, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An anthology of Welsh poetry in translation and in English, from the sixth-century bard, Taliesin, to Dylan Thomas, includes examples of characteristic Welsh metrical forms and excerpts from classic long works
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9780192151810 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1972, cover price $17.50
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9780890670125 | Amer Scandinavian Fndtn, June 1, 1960, cover price $7.00
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9780856723568 | Longwood Pr Ltd, June 1, 1940, cover price $5.50
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