King Harald's Saga

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1970 (1966)* Publisher: Penguin Classics.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated Soft card covers showing a detail from the ?Badishol Tapestry? 12th Century Norway. Somewhat rubbed to all edges and creases to corners. No creases to spine or hinge but slightly rubbed. GOOD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Contents condition: Complete and tight with light tanning to margins and edges throughout. No annotations or inscription. GD+* Illustrations: Four pages of b/w line drawn maps at rear.* Pages: 179 pp. text. v pp. advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- 1066 was not only the start of the Norman era in England: it effectively closed the Viking era as well. Less than three weeks before the Battle of Hastings, Harold of England defeated and killed the giant Harald Hardrai of Norway at Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire. King Harald?s Saga, written by the Icelandic historian, Snorri Sturluson, records the turbulent life of a warrior who served and fought in every corner of Europe, from Russia to Sicily, and tells how the last of the great Vikings was rewarded, for his claim to the English throne, with ?seven feet if English soil.?* This is a GOOD reprint copy with some age and considerable shelf wear.*