Sagas

Los Nibelungos

Read by Victor Villarraza


Anonymoustranslated Byantonio Fernandez Merino, Unknowntranslated Byantonio Fernandez Merino and Translated Byantonio Fernandez Merino


En el Cantar de los nibelungos se narra la gesta de Sigfrido, un cazador de dragones de la corte de los burgundios, quien valiéndose …

Nibelungenlied

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Anonymous


The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfri…

The Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation)

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Snorri Sturleson


Also known as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, the Prose Edda is a three-part work composed or at least compiled by thirteenth-century Ice…

The Elder Edda (Bray Translation)

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Sæmund Sigfusson


The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems dating from the thirteenth century CE. Though no two translators or editors seem…

The Mabinogion, Volume 1

Read by Martin Geeson


Anonymoustranslated Bycharlotte Guest


Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest:On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flo…

Cañas y barro

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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez


Cañas y barro relata la historia de una de las familias más importantes de La Abufera valenciana. Generación tras gener…

Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes (Kirby translation)

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Elias Lönnrot


The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. It…

The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald

Read by Phil Schempf


Anonymoustranslated Bywilliam Morris


A tale from Iceland, 800 years ago.In a dream of quarrels and deathThe birth of fair Helga is toldCross the north seas ventured for fameAt t…

Los Eddas

Read by Victor Villarraza


Sæmund Sigfusson


Los Eddas son colecciones de historias relacionadas con la mitología nórdica. Con este nombre se conocen dos recopilaciones li…

The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow

Read by Erin Schellhase


Allen French


Rolf, a youth in early Christian Iceland, loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to the schemes of a greedy neig…

By Right of Conquest; Or, With Cortez in Mexico

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G. A. Henty


In perhaps the most audacious military enterprise in the history of human conquest, Cortez, with only a few hundred men, conquered a civili…

In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2)

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John Galsworthy


'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. In Chancery is…

Amadis of Gaul

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Vasco De Lobeira


Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th…

The Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)

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Elias Lönnrot


This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seab…

The Fall of the Nibelungs

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Unknowntranslated Bymargaret Armour and Translated Bymargaret Armour


"The Fall of the Nibelungs" is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the "Nibelungenlied&q…

The Frithiof Saga

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Ferdinand Schmidt


Iceland is the home of the Saga, a form of literature which includes the telling of the story of a hero’s life and adventures in a fixed, re…

Die Ahnen - Das Nest der Zaunkönige

Read by Bernd Ungerer


Gustav Freytag


„Im Nest der Zaunkönige liegt der Hauptteil des Herrenbesitzes um die Drei Gleichen, Vorberge des Thüringer Waldes bis in die N&au…

Finnish Legends

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R. Eivind


One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family …

The Norwegian Fairy Book

Read by Paul Harvey


Klara Stroebe


These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, have been handed down by hinds and huntsmen, wood choppers and fisher f…

The World’s Story Volume VIII: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and …

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Eva March Tappan


This is the eighth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…

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