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J. R. R. Tolkien; ed. Christopher Tolkien.
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.
Published London: HarperCollins, 2009 (1st impression).
ISBN 9780007317233.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: Clays Ltd., St. Ives.
Size: 151x227x33mm.
Page count: 377pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good to very good: this copy is unused, but with some mild shop wear on the edges and corners.


This item £8.50
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £18.99]
Weight without packaging: 639g.

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Presents Tolkien’s verse adaptations of material from the Elder Edda, Volsunga Saga, and the Lay of Gudrun. The introduction includes a long extract from a lecture by Tolkien on the Elder Edda.
Appendices: Origins of the legend; Prophecy of the Sibyl; Heroic poem of Attila in Old English [by Tolkien].

Illustrations: colour frontispiece
Maps & plans: no

Notes: extended commentary at the end of each poem
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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See also | Tolkien | Saga material |

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