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Beowulf (Signet Classics)
Anonymous
Signet Classics, 1999
Beowulf
Excellent poem. It transmits through words very pure feelings and attitudes of men and societies already forgotten.
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The Great Scandinavian Baking Book
Beatrice A. Ojakangas
University of Minnesota Press, 1999
Best ever!
This is the best most complete Scandinavian baking book that I have ever come across that is published in English. It has many recipes that my Great Grandmother brought over from the old country (Denmark), just not all her familie's special variations. The recipes are ...
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
"fate hovered near, unknowable but certain" (line 2421)
Over the years I've read several English renderings of Beowulf. But I don't think I've ever really appreciated the haunting beauty of the thing until reading Seamus Heaney's translation. In his introductory essay, Heaney says that he's always loved the Beowulf poet's ...
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings (Hist Atlas)
John Haywood
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995
Best Resource for Beginning Scandophiles
This atlas is one of the best possible collections of our knowledge about early Scandinavia. Although the term "Viking" is in the title, hopefully by reading this book you will learn that there was a whole lot more to primitive, expansionist Scandia. The book also does ...
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Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions)
W. W. Norton, 2002
Much more than an old parchment...
Most people probably think Beowulf is still read merely because it's old. Well, it is old. Wow it's old. Hoary and whiskery old. Best estimates place the composition somewhere between the 7th and 10th centuries A.D. One can speak in terms of millenia when speaking of ...
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Streetwise Amsterdam Map - Laminated Center City Street Map of Amsterdam, Netherlands - Folding pocket size ...
Streetwise Maps
Streetwise Maps, 2008
life saver
i bought this product on a whim and was it a life saver. the map was easy to read and navigate. because it was laminated it held up great, was drunk proof and survived numerous visits to the amsterdam night-life and pub scene. we literally never felt like we were lost ...
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Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics)
Wilfred Thesiger
Penguin Classics, 2008
archetypal saga of exploration and adventure
Not only a magnificent travelogue chronicling travels in in a harsh, surreal landscape, here we see the age-old yearning of the explorer to discover the things which cannot be found among the comforts and conveniences of civilization,chief of which is a knowledge of ...
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In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream
Eric Dregni Dregni
Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2008
Eric Dregni?s great-grandfather Ellef fled Norway in 1893 when it was the poorest country in Europe. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson traveled back to find that?mostly due to oil and natural gas discoveries?it is now the richest. The circumstances of his return were serendipitous, as the notice that Dregni won a Fulbright ...
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Switzerland (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
DK Publishing
DK Travel, 2004
Informative, thorough and entertaining in the bargain!
I'm not a seasoned or jaded traveler ... yet! So a comprehensive travel guide is critical to my preparation for a trip and a great way of post-filling information and details into some of the holes or places that I might have missed or had to rush through when I was ...
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The Norse Myths (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Pantheon, 1981
There's only one thing you need to know when looking for an introduction to Norse myths...
...and that this is the book Neil Gaiman recommends on the subject.
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Norway - Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs and etiquette (Culture Smart!)
Linda March
Kuperard, 2006
Great Book
I love this book. It's written like someone talking to you. It's a great concept and I'm thinking of purchasing books from other countries.
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The Vikings: Revised Edition
Else Roesdahl
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
Decent overview of the Viking era
_The Vikings_ by Else Roesdahl was a fairly thorough if sometimes a little dry account of the Viking Age, a time that lasted about 300 years, from just before AD 800 until well into the 11th century. The Vikings were a tremendously influential people, playing a ...
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Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Penguin Classics)
Anonymous
Penguin Classics, 2003
Good translation of a great epic
Michael Alexander's translation of Beowulf is among the best available today. While neither as readable nor as poetic as the more famous Heaney translation, Alexander's is exciting, close to the original, and tells the story in such a way that it never fails to grip ...
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Rick Steves' Scandinavia (Rick Steves)
Rick Steves
Avalon Travel Publishing, 2008
Indispensable in Scandinavia
I just returned from a two-week adventure in Scandinavia, where I hung out in Oslo, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. I had a great time seeing the places where my predecessors came from, and I can attribute much of my trip's success to the "Rick Steves' Scandinavia 2005" ...
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Traditional Scandinavian Knitting
Sheila McGregor
Dover Publications, 2004
Traditional Scandinavian Knitting
WOW! This is a great book. I just bought it after reading bits and pieces of it from a copy I borrowed from our library. It has Scandinavian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, and North Atlantic Islands (Facroe and Iceland). It has patterns for Jerseys, Gloves and ...
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