The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland

The cultural aspects are often as interesting to me as the stories themselves, so I like to feel like I'm getting something relatively authentic. When it comes to myths and folktales, I'm something of a purist. Edmund Hall, Oxford, a patron of the Society of Storytelling and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has a Minnesotan wife, Linda, two sons (Kieran and Dominic) and two daughters (Oenone and Eleanor).

He offers poetry and prose workshops and talks on the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, King Arthur, heroines and heroes, and myth, legend and folk-tale.Īfter seven years teaching in Minnesota, where he held an Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Kevin Crossley-Holland returned to the north Norfolk coast in East Anglia, where he now lives.

He often lectures abroad on behalf of the British Council, regularly leads sessions for teachers and librarians, and visits primary and secondary schools. His play, The Wuffings, (co-authored with Ivan Cutting) was produced by Eastern Angles in 1997. His collaborations with composers include two operas with Nicola Lefanu ('The Green Children' and 'The Wildman') and one with Rupert Bawden, 'The Sailor’s Tale' song cycles with Sir Arthur Bliss and William Mathias and a carol with Stephen Paulus for King’s College, Cambridge. The Arthur trilogy has won worldwide critical acclaim and has been translated into 21 languages.Ĭrossley-Holland has translated Beowulf from the Anglo-Saxon, and his retellings of traditional tales include The Penguin Book of Norse Myths and British Folk Tales (reissued as The Magic Lands). The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal. His books include Waterslain Angels, a detective story set in north Norfolk in 1955, and Moored Man: A Cycle of North Norfolk Poems Gatty's Tale, a medieval pilgrimage novel and the Arthur trilogy ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing-Places and King of the Middle March), which combines historical fiction with the retelling of Arthurian legend. Urn:oclc:37111181 Republisher_operator Scandate 20111221205336 Scanner Crossley-Holland is a well-known poet and prize-winning author for children. OL1955116W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 80.42 Pages 332 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0613264185 Urn:lcp:norsemyths00cros:epub:10700d8e-6026-43e6-8901-aaf9806d0b9a Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier norsemyths00cros Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4vh6kf5c Isbn 0394500482 Lccn 80007718 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL4094915M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:47:36 Boxid IA142824 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪllen_countydonation Edition 1st American ed.

The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland