The Fireside

Currently, I'm reading The Saga of the Volsungs , published by Penguin as part of their Legends From the Ancient North series (other titles include Beowulf, The Elder Edda, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Wanderer . I am quite enjoying it so far, as well as some similar books I've read lately. However I've yet to read any of these sagas. There a few different versions from a few publishers. There are 49 Sagas total, so I'm going to look at which editions of the Sagas offer what. First up is Penguin's Sagas of Icelanders . (ISBN: 9780141000039) This collection offers some of the Sagas and Tales, and is a great 'best of' in that sense, or greatest hits. This edition also 'matches' some of their other deluxe paperback editions, such as Robert Fagles' translations of The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid ; as well as some other titles (like Anna Karenina ). Please note that the pages are 'deckle edge', so they're supposed to loo...

I've always loved, and been inspired by various aspects of Tolkien's mythology: not only the in-universe lore itself, but how he came to create the tales. Even in the sense of 'prose' and 'verse.' I do not know much about epic poetry (beats? chanting?) I just enjoying reading them. I've always sort of been inspired to do my own Tolkien-esque poem...a 'lay' if you will. Somebody else, did just that. They didn't steal my idea, but this is what I would have liked to have done, or something very similar. The author is James Moffett. Many may know him best for his blog, "A Tolkienist's Perspective". This blog, my own, isn't a Tolkien specific one; however it's a key interest of mine so it gets lots of coverage. What follows is his blog post about the book, and the official description: Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: Independently published (Nov. 2 2019) [as far as I'm aware, only available through Amazon] Language: English ...