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  • The Nibelungenlied

    Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prince of the Netherlands, wins the hand of the beautiful princess Kriemhild of Burgundy, by aiding her brother Gunther in his struggle to seduce a powerful ... Read more

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  • Tristan with the 'Tristran' of Thomas

    Translated by A. Hatto ...
    One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan, written in the early thirteenth century, is based on a medieval love story of grand passion and deceit. By slaying a dragon, the young prince Tristan wins the beautiful Isolde's hand in marriage for his uncle, King Mark. On their journey back to Mark's court, however, the pair mistakenly drink a love-potion intended for the king and his young ... Read more

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  • Parzival

    Translated by A. Hatto ...
    Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King of the Temple of the Grail, which Wolfram describes as a life-giving Stone. As a knight serving the ... Read more

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  • The World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princes

    An Exploration of a Siberian Oral Tradition

    by Arthur Hatto ...
    Series Book 69 - University of Cambridge Oriental Publications
    In his final book, the late Arthur Hatto analyses the Khanty epic tradition in Siberia on the basis of eighteen texts of Khanty oral heroic epic poems recorded and edited by a succession of Hungarian and Russian scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book examines the world view of an indigenous culture as reconstructed from its own words, demonstrates a flexible outline for ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • Rotor Balancing

    Fundamentals for Systematic Processes

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Balancing of rotors is an indispensable process for the quality management, involving many stages from design to commissioning. With every further development of rotors - with new concepts, materials and machining methods - the demands on balancing technology change. In the search for the optimum solution to these complex tasks, no patent remedies will help, but only a sound knowledge of the ... Read more

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    Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Arthur's Queen Guinevere, and in The Knight with the Lion Yvain neglects his bride in his quest for greater glory. Erec ... Read more

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  • The History of the Kings of Britain

    Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur, it is as much myth as it is history and its veracity was ... Read more

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  • The Lais of Marie De France

    With Two Further Lais in the Original Old French

    by Marie France ...
    Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the lais inhabit a powerfully realized world where very real human protagonists act out their lives against fairy-tale elements of magical beings, ... Read more

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  • Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1

    by Thomas Malory ...
    Series Book 1 - Le Morte D'Arthur
    Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le Fay and the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table, it magically weaves together adventure, battle, love and enchantment. Le Morte D'Arthur ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Morte Darthur Volume 2, Le

    How Sir Tristram jousted, and smote down King Arthur, because he told him not the cause why he bare that shield. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

    The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrún, and the Fall of the Nibelungs.“Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, of the great legend of Northern antiquity, in two closely related poems to which he gave the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces

    Series series The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
    Explore the Hero's Journey in stories as old as humanity and as new as last night's dreamThe latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change. — Joseph CampbellSince its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faceshas influenced millions of readers by ... Read more

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