• Jesse L. Byock (born 1945) is Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Scandinavian Studies in the Scandinavian Section at the University of California, Los...
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  • translation by Jesse Byock Saga of the Volsungs "The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer" with introduction and translation by Jesse Byock Drinking horn...
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    Byock 2005, p. 36. Byock 2005, p. 42. Byock 2005, p. 70. Byock 2005, pp. 71–72. Byock 2005, p. 72. Byock 2005, p. 73. Byock 2005, pp. 73–75. Byock 2005...
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    this etymology, listing the name Ratatoskr as meaning "drill-tooth" (Jesse Byock, Andy Orchard, Rudolf Simek) or "bore-tooth" (John Lindow). In the Poetic...
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  • Wayback Machine by Óafur R. Dýrmundsson. Jesse Byock, Viking Age Iceland (London: Penguin Books, 2001), 7 Jesse Byock, Viking Age Iceland (London: Penguin...
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    leaves the land, and Skaði is not mentioned again in the saga. Scholar Jesse Byock notes that the goddess Skaði is also associated with winter and hunting...
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    Tolkien, has "a very close analogue" in Bödvar Bjarki. Kveldulf Bjalfason Jesse Byock (1999), The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, Penguin Classics, ISBN 014043593X...
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  • conditions were regulated by the Icelandic law collected in the Grágás. Byock, Jesse (2001), Viking Age Iceland. Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-14-029115-5 p....
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    Bernard Scudder. New York: Penguin Books. Grettir's Saga. Translated by Jesse Byock. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. Grettir later refers to Kárr...
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    one called Just-as-High, while the one highest up is called Third. — Jesse Byock translation, Gylfaginning, Chapter 2 The rest of the Gylfaginning then...
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    Bragi told Ægir about the many things that had happened to the Æsir. — Jesse Byock translation, Skáldskaparmál, Chapter 1 The Skáldskaparmál is around 50...
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    Garland Publishing. ISBN 978-0815336662. Byock, Jesse, ed. (2006). The Prose Edda. Translated by Jesse Byock. Penguin Classics. ISBN 0-14-044755-5. Davidson...
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    saying that someone who escapes finds refuge (hleinir)", 1995 [1987]) and Jesse Byock ("From her name comes the expression that he who escapes finds hleinir...
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  • differentiation between them and the rest of the population. Gunnar Karlsson and Jesse Byock argued that the Icelanders wrote the Sagas as a way to establish commonly...
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    numerous translations. The most recent ones into English have been by Jesse Byock (2006), Anthony Faulkes (1987 / 2nd ed. 1995), Jean Young (1954), and...
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    1926, now in the public domain. Byock, Jesse. Viking Age Iceland. Penguin Books Ltd; London, 2009. Page 99. Byock, Jesse. Viking Age Iceland. Penguin Books...
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    Bachelor degree from UCLA studying Viking civilization under Professor Jesse Byock[citation needed] and his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School. He graduated...
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  • Byock, Jesse (1990). The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23285-2. Byock,...
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    protect 'hidden' elves". The Independent. Retrieved 27 December 2013. Jesse Byock; Jon Erlandson (2005). "A Viking-age Valley in Iceland: The Mosfell Archaeological...
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    brothers, who had goaded Bolli to fight his cousin, driven into exile. Jesse Byock contrasted Olaf's magnanimity towards Bolli with the blood feud mentality...
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    deadly insult, and that this lends a tragic air to the scene in the hall. Jesse Byock (1990) states that the name Barnstokkr may not conceivably be the original...
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    anglicized as Managarm, Manegarm, Mánagarm or Managarmr. List of wolves Byock, Jesse. (Trans.) The Prose Edda, page 164. (2006) Penguin Classics ISBN 0-14-044755-5...
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    Adams (1923). The Poetic Edda. The American-Scandinavian Foundation Byock, Jesse (Trans.) (2005). The Prose Edda. Penguin Classics. ISBN 0-14-044755-5...
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    public domain. Byock, Jesse (1988) Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas and Power (University of California Press) ISBN 978-0520069541 Byock, Jesse (2001) Viking...
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    Adams (1923). The Poetic Edda. The American-Scandinavian Foundation Byock, Jesse (Trans.) (2005). The Prose Edda. Penguin Classics. ISBN 0-14-044755-5...
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    & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 23 April 2024. Byock, Jesse (trans.) (2006). The Prose Edda. Penguin Classics. ISBN 0-14-044755-5...
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    Larrington (1996). Byock (2006:12). Byock (2006:39). Byock (2006:67-69). Byock (2006:77). Davidson (1998:30-31). Davidson (1968). Byock, Jesse (Trans.) (2006)...
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    The Prose Edda: translated by Jesse Byock. Penguin Classics. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-14-044755-2. Lindow 2002, p. 147 Byock, Jesse (2005). The Prose Edda. Londres:...
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  • the feud with Sigar, Helwin and Hamund (a namesake of his father's). Byock, Jesse L, trans. and ed. The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd...
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    another Icelandic magical stave first recorded in the modern period Byock, Jesse. The Saga of the Volsungs. London: Penguin, 1999, pp. 66. Bellows 2004...
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