The Saga of Guanlaug Serpent-Tongue

Resumen del libro

'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper.' In this epic tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking Britain, two poets compete for the love of Helga the Fair - with fatal consequences. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries.

They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. The Icelandic Sagas were oral in origin and written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Other Icelandic Sagas available in Penguin Classics include Njal's Saga, Egil's Saga, Sagas of Warrior-Poets, Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri, The Saga of Grettir the Strong, The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason's Tale, The Vinland Sagas and Comic Sagas from Iceland.

Biografía del autor

(Madrid, 1935) es uno de los grandes dibujantes españoles de inspiración literaria. Nombrado miembro de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando en 1998, desde muy joven demostró su enorme talento creativo y con solo 22 años obtuvo la Tercera Medalla de Pintura y Dibujo en la Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes. Becado por la Academia de España en Roma en 1964, desde entonces ha publicado varios libros de arte, ha sido profesor visitante en universidades como la japonesa de Nara y ha ilustrado libros como el poemario de Luis Alberto de Cuenca La mujer y el vampiro (2010), Tatuaje, de Junichiro Tanizaki (2010), Amor y gimnasia, de Edmondo de Amicis (2011) y Gitanjali, del Premio Nobel Rabindranath Tagore (2014) y Pinocho (2014), de Carlo Collodi.