Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s in postwar Britain, Henry Treece wrote of the turning points of British and Scandinavian history--or, as he liked to call them, "crossroads." Treece's career as a writer for children spanned barely a dozen years, but...

World of the Sagas. London: Penguin, 2001. Pp. i-xlii + 378. $14.00. Penguin Books has begun issuing individual sagas from The Complete Sags of Icelanders, published (to much acclaim) by Leifur Eiriksson in 1997. Within the Penguin Classics series, this translation of...

Abstract Following a review of the primary sources La leyenda de los siete infantes de Lara, The Nibelungenlied and Njal's Saga the role of women and their role in exacting blood vengeance within a medieval context will be compared. The analysis is...