Saints and Sagas
Author: Hans Bekker-Nielsen
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
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Sagas, Saints and Settlements
Author: Gareth Williams
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004-05-01
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9047405188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. With contributions by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Phil Cardew, Haki Antonsson, Gareth Williams, Barbara Crawford and Simon Taylor.
The Saint and the Saga Hero
Author: Siân E. Grønlie
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781843844815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling argument that far from developing in a literary vacuum, saga literature interacts in lively, creative and critical ways with one of the central genres of the European middle ages.
The Book of Lost Saints
Author: Daniel José Older
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: 2022-02-22
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781250620910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Book of Lost Saints is an evocative multigenerational Cuban-American family story of revolution, loss, and family bonds from New York Times-bestselling author Daniel José Older. Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a trace. Now, shaped by atrocities long-forgotten, her tenacious spirit visits her nephew, Ramón, in modern-day New Jersey. Her hope: that her presence will prompt him to unearth their painful family history. Ramón launches a haphazard investigation into the story of his ancestor, unaware of the forces driving him on his search. Along the way, he falls in love, faces a run-in with a murderous gangster, and uncovers the lives of the lost saints who helped Marisol during her imprisonment. Uplifting and evocative, The Book of Lost Saints is a haunting meditation on family, forgiveness, and the violent struggle to be free. An Imprint Book
The Saga of the Sister Saints
Author: Natalie M. Van Deusen
Publisher: Studies and Texts
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780888442147
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The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas
Author: Ármann Jakobsson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-02-17
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 1317041461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and as source materials. This volume will be of interest to Old Norse and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists in general.
Swords and Saints
Author: Alec Hutson
Publisher:
Published: 2020-07-23
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781734257410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sword of green glass. A key that opens passages between the worlds. The nameless warrior has nothing else. No allies, no armor, not even the memory of how he came to be trapped within this dying land, pursued across a red waste by the monstrous Shriven. But all hope is not lost. There are other survivors amidst the desolation, holding clues as to where he has come from and what he must do: Amara, the Red Sword of her tribe, a beautiful and fiery swordswoman obsessed with destroying the demons that plague her people, and Valyra, a young sorceress who can weave the broken threads of this reality into something whole once more. Together they will try to resist the evil that stalks the wastes. But this world is only one among many, and in order to unravel his mysteries the warrior must find the doorways which will allow him to stride between the stars and pass into even stranger lands . . .
The Saints of Salvation
Author: Peter F. Hamilton
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 0399178899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith refreshing determination and hopeful grit, humanity activates a bold endgame against an alien invasion in the finale of a series heralded as “a modern classic” (Stephen Baxter) from “one of the finest writers the genre has produced” (Gareth L. Powell). Humanity is struggling to hold out against a hostile takeover by an alien race that claims to be on a religious mission to bring all sentient life to its God at the End of Time. But while billions of cocooned humans fill the holds of the Olyix’s deadly arkships, humankind is playing an even longer game than the aliens may have anticipated. From an ultra-secret spy mission to one of the grandest battles ever seen, no strategy is off the table. Will a plan millennia in the making finally be enough to defeat this seemingly unstoppable enemy? And what secrets are the Olyix truly hiding in their most zealously protected stronghold? With his trademark optimism about humanity’s tenacity and capacity for greatness, Peter F. Hamilton wraps up this brilliant saga with a bang—and reminds us why freedom of choice is the most important freedom there is.
Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland
Author: Stephen Pelle
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 184384611X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.
All the Crooked Saints
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0545930820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle.Here is a thing everyone fears:What it takes to get one.Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado, is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future: Beatriz, the girl without feelings, who wants only to be free to examine her thoughts; Daniel, the Saint of Bicho Raro, who performs miracles for everyone but himself; and Joaquin, who spends his nights running a renegade radio station under the name Diablo Diablo. They are all looking for a miracle. But the miracles of Bicho Raro are never quite what you expect.
