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Small Moral Works : Annotated , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min
A satyrical view of life by Giacomo Leopardi, probably the greatest Italian writer in the 19th century. A bitter pessimism, a true love for human existence.... The Small Moral Works are placed in a particular period of Leopardi's life. They were written in the phase of “poetic silence” in which Leopardi did not compose poems (1824-1828). The work collects 24 prose (in the form of narration, discourse, or dialogue) of short dimensions, very different in style and structure. This great variety of styles, however, corresponds to a great consistency in the themes: Mankind is on the periphery (dialogue between a goblin and a gnome, Copernicus)The centrality of man in the cosmos is a mere illusion: Humanity could even disappear at any moment, and nobody would notice it.A mechanistic and materialistic vision (dialogue of Nature and an Icelander) There is no spiritual reality or any divine intervention: The world is born, exists, and will cease, for pure material and mechanical causes. Man is not at the center of the projects of a saving God, therefore his destiny and his present reality is unhappiness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Miller-Youst. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/138907/bk_acx0_138907_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Place of the Heart , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 854min
Single mother Harpa has always been a misfit. Her physical description is like no other Icelander: So small she self-deprecatingly refers to herself as a dwarf, so dark-skinned she doubts her genetic link to her parents, so strange she nearly believed the children who mistook her for a mythical creature of the forest. Even as an adult, she struggles to make sense of her place in the world.So when she sees how her teenage daughter, Edda, has suffered since a close friend’s drug overdose, Harpa has no choice but to tear her away from her friends in the city. She enlists the help of a friend and loads her reprobate daughter and their belongings into a pickup truck, setting out on a road trip to Iceland’s bucolic eastern fjords.As they drive through the starkly beautiful landscape, winding around volcanic peaks, battling fierce windstorms, and forging ahead to a verdant valley, their personal vulnerabilities feel somehow less dangerous. The natural world, with all its contrasts, offers Harpa solace and the chance to reflect on her past in order to open her heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joyce Bean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006015/bk_brll_006015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Loki: The Origins and History of the Famous Norse Trickster God , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 91min
Much of what is known of the Norse myths comes from the 10th century onwards. Until this time and, indeed, for centuries afterwards, Norse culture (particularly that of Iceland, where the myths were eventually transcribed) was an oral culture. In fact, in all Scandinavian countries well into the 13th century laws were memorized by officials known as "Lawspeakers" who recited them at the "Thing." The Thing was the legislative assembly in Scandinavia "held for judicial purposes". One of the most famous of these Lawspeakers was the Icelander Snorri Sturluson, a masterful writer who wrote the Prose Edda in the 13th century. There are other sources for the Norse myths, namely the later "Poetic Edda", a collection of poems and prose work, and other sagas but the Snorri's Prose Edda is the most complete work whose attribution is known to modern scholars. It is believed that Snorri, a Christian, recorded these pagan beliefs so as to preserve and explain the stylistic poetry of Iceland, particularly the popular descriptive devices known as kennings. A kenning is made up of a base word and a modifying word that is used to describe a separate object. For example, "Gold" had a great many kennings, one of which was "Sif's Hair". If, however, the memory of Loki cutting off Sif's hair and replacing it with gold were lost, then this kenning would make no sense to later generations. There are many of these allusions to the myths and it is thanks to them that the myths have survived. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100273/bk_acx0_100273_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Týr: The Origins and History of the Norse God of Law, War, and Justice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min
"Yet remains that one of the Æsir who is called Týr: he is most daring, and best in stoutness of heart, and he has much authority over victory in battle; it is good for men of valour to invoke him. It is a proverb, that he is Týr-valiant, who surpasses other men and does not waver. He is wise, so that it is also said, that he that is wisest is Týr-prudent. This is one token of his daring: when the Æsir enticed Fenris-Wolf to take upon him the fetter Gleipnir, the wolf did not believe them, that they would loose him, until they laid Týr's hand into his mouth as a pledge. But when the Æsir would not loose him, then he bit off the hand at the place now called 'the wolf's joint;' and Týr is one-handed, and is not called a reconciler of men.” Much of what is known of the Norse myths comes from the 10th century onwards. Until this time and, indeed, for centuries afterwards, Norse culture (particularly that of Iceland, where the myths were eventually transcribed) was an oral culture. In fact, in all Scandinavian countries well into the thirteenth century laws were memorized by officials known as “Lawspeakers” who recited them at the “Thing.” The Thing was the legislative assembly in Scandinavia “held for judicial purposes”. One of the most famous of these lawspeakers was the Icelander Snorri Sturluson, a masterful writer who wrote the Prose Edda in the 13th century. There are other sources for the Norse myths, namely the later Poetic Edda, a collection of poems and prose work, and other sagas but the Snorri’s Prose Edda is the most complete work whose attribution is known to modern scholars. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/113105/bk_acx0_113105_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Heimdallr: The Origins and History of the Norse God Who Keeps Watch for Ragnarök , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 90min
Much of what is known of the Norse myths comes from the 10th century onward. Until this time and, indeed, for centuries afterwards, Norse culture (particularly that of Iceland, where the myths were eventually transcribed) was an oral culture. In fact, in all Scandinavian countries well into the 13th century, laws were memorized by officials known as “Lawspeakers” who recited them at the “Thing”. The Thing was the legislative assembly in Scandinavia “held for judicial purposes”. One of the most famous of these Lawspeakers was the Icelander Snorri Sturluson, a masterful writer who wrote the Prose Edda in the 13th century. There are other sources for the Norse myths, namely the later Poetic Edda, a collection of poems and prose work, and other sagas, but the Snorri’s Prose Edda is the most complete work whose attribution is known to modern scholars. The Prose Edda is a collection of Norse Myths split into three sections: the Gylfaginning (the Deluding of Gylfi), the Skáldskaparmál (the Language of Poetry), and the Háttatal (the Enumeration of Meters). The first has a frame story that entails a Swedish King Gylf disguising himself as the old man Gangleri when he journeys to Asgard to meet the gods. When he arrives, he meets three men - “High One, Just-As-High, and Third” - who reveal to him stories of the world and the gods. Thanks to recent modern Hollywood depictions of Heimdallr (by his Anglicized name Heimdall), played masterfully and enigmatically by the actor Idris Elba, this mysterious Norse god has once again emerged in pop culture. However, knowledge of his name has not brought with it many solutions to the problems of his character. The French philologist Georges Dumézil outlined the problems of Heimdallr excellently in his book Gods of the Ancient Northmen: “The god Heimdall poses one of the most difficult problems in Scandinavian mythography. As all who have dealt with him have emphasized, this is pr ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/114444/bk_acx0_114444_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Little Book of the Icelanders at Christmas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 158min
Christmas in Iceland is special. Ask any Icelander and they will tell you. It is a time of year when everything pulsates with vibrant activity, and the nation delights in those festive traditions that make them a tribe. Music is all around, friends gather, restaurants are filled with people partaking of festive Yuletide offerings, authors are out and about reading from their new works. Everything pulsates with a vibrant, happy energy. There is even a word for the gleeful excitement one feels when waiting for Christmas — jólaskap, literally “Christmas mood”.In this book, Alda Sigmundsdóttir invites you on a journey of Iceland’s magical Yuletide season, all the way to New Year’s Eve, and beyond. You will learn about the special foods, traditions and customs that makes Christmas in Iceland so special, and meet a colourful cast of characters that are such an integral part of the Yule. In her inimitable style, and using examples from her own life, Alda gives you not only the modern version of Christmas, but also the historical and cultural background to many of that traditions that are still observed today.Sample from the book:Quick question: Did you receive this book as a Christmas gift?If you answered yes, you will have been party to one of the best-loved Icelandic Yule traditions: giving or receiving a book for Christmas. This tradition is so entrenched in Icelandic society that it feels like it must have been around forever. Not so. It began during World War II, when there were strict limitations on imports, though for some reason the restrictions on imported paper were less severe. The Icelanders were flush with affluence at this time — WWII was referred to as the “blessed war” since the British and later American occupation had brought jobs, and therefore money — but they had few things on which to spend their unprecedented wealth.Except, well, paper. Only, there was not a whole lot you could do with paper, except…print ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alda Sigmundsdottir. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/226881/bk_acx0_226881_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Life of the Icelander Jon Olafsson Traveller to India Written by Himself and Completed about 1661 A.D.
Life of the Icelander Jon Olafsson Traveller to India Written by Himself and Completed about 1661 A.D. - With a Continuation by Another Hand up to his Death in 1679. Volume I: ab 61.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Life of the Icelander Jon Olafsson Traveller to India Written by Himself and Completed about 1661 A.D.
Life of the Icelander Jon Olafsson Traveller to India Written by Himself and Completed about 1661 A.D. - With a Continuation by Another Hand up to his Death in 1679. Volume II: ab 61.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The Life of the Icelander Jón Ólafsson Traveller to India Written by Himself and Completed about 1661 A.D.
The Life of the Icelander Jón Ólafsson Traveller to India Written by Himself and Completed about 1661 A.D. - With a Continuation by Another Hand up to his Death in 1679. Volume I: ab 38.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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