{"title":"Books by Jackson Crawford","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781624663567","title":"The Poetic Edda","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The poems of the \u003ci\u003ePoetic Edda\u003c\/i\u003e have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc. Jackson Crawford's modern versions of these poems are authoritative and fluent and often very gripping.  With their individual headnotes and complementary general introduction, they supply today's readers with most of what they need to know in order to understand and appreciate the beliefs, motivations, and values of the Vikings.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Dick Ringler, Professor Emeritus of English and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56301967933813,"sku":"9781624663567","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57688253596021,"sku":"9781624663574","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781624663567.jpg?v=1792686228"},{"product_id":"9781647920852","title":"Jackson Crawford Three-Book Boxed Set","description":"Since the 2015 publication of The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes, Old Norse specialist Dr. Jackson Crawford has delighted readers with his English-language translations of Old Norse sagas and poems that tell the tales of Odin, Thor, Loki, dragon-slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, Hrólf Kraki, and many more. This limited-edition set collects three of Dr. Crawford's Hackett Publishing books, The Poetic Edda (2015), The Saga of the Volsungs (2017), and Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes (2021) in a beautifully designed, hand-numbered, and hand-crafted slipcase box. Each book in the set features smyth-sewn hardcover bindings with new custom artwork for the front covers. The Poetic Edda features a medallion of the wolf Fenrir, The Saga of the Volsungs a medallion of the dragon\/serpent Fafnir, and Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes a medallion of a bear. Each volume in the set begins with a phrase hand-written by Dr. Crawford that best exemplifies the text to follow or Dr. Crawford's favorite passage from the book. The quotes in The Poetic Edda and Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes also contain the runic \"originals.\" The Poetic Edda also includes a bookplate personally signed by Dr. Crawford and hand-tipped into the front of the book.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303126020469,"sku":"9781647920852","price":127.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781647920852_40f565a5-1b5d-47be-a1ac-6bdf14319ebd.jpg?v=1786034419"},{"product_id":"two-sagas-of-mythical-heroes","title":"Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes","description":"\u003cp\u003eInherited through the line of the berserker Angantýr and his war-loving daughter Hervor, the ever-lethal, shining sword Tyrfing and its changes of hands frame the uncanny story of \u003ci\u003eThe Saga of Hervor and Heiđrek\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA second heroic saga, \u003ci\u003eHrólf Kraki and His Champions\u003c\/i\u003e, recounts the daring deeds of the members and entourage of the ancient Danish house of Skjoldung. Passed down orally in pre-Christian Norse times, transmitted in writing in medieval Iceland, and here wielded by the hand of Jackson Crawford, the tales told in this volume retain their sharp edges and flashes of glory that never fail to slay.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57484311724405,"sku":"9781624669941","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57688209293685,"sku":"9781624669958","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781624669941_0de2fb23-2232-4f6a-a40a-bb2e8bee666f.jpg?v=1792686136"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-jackson-crawford.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}