Book Details
| Author: | Johnston, George (Translator): |
| Title: | The Saga of Gisli. |
| Published: | Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1963. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 01 - Literature |
| Description: | First edition. Translated from the Icelandic by Professor George Johnston (Carleton University, Ottawa). With notes and an essay on the Saga of Gisli by Peter Foote (Reader in Old Icelandic in the University of London). xiii, 146 pp. The story of Gisli was written early in the thirteenth century. It offers the imaginative reconstruction of the story of a man and his family who came to Iceland from Norway about A.D. 950. Considered to be an outstanding piece of medieval literature. With 8 maps. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Black spine label. Top edge black. Overall condition VG+. In VG pictorial dust wrapper. |
| Book Number: | #1255 |
| Price: | € 19.00 |
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