The wanderer : elegies, epics, riddles

translated and edited by Michael Alexander

Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Wanderer tells the classic tales that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. "Therefore I may not think, throughout this world, why cloud cometh not on my mind when I think over all the life of earls, how at a stroke they have given up hall, mood-proud thanes. So this middle earth each of all days ageth and falleth". (J.R.R). Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales. Legends from the Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's fiction. They are startling, brutal, strange pieces of writing, with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these translations. They plunge the reader into a world of treachery, quests, chivalry, trials of strength. They are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe and bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century.

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書名 The wanderer : elegies, epics, riddles
著作者等 Alexander, Michael J.
Alexander Michael
書名別名 The wanderer : elegies, epics, riddles : poems from England's ancient origins
シリーズ名 Penguin classics
Penguin books
出版元 Penguin Classics/Penguin
刊行年月 c2008
ページ数 xxviii, 148 p.
大きさ 20 cm
ISBN 9780141393742
NCID BB14374848
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言語 英語
原文言語 古英語(450年頃 - 1100年頃)
出版国 イギリス
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