바이킹 전설들 / Viking Tales (삽화 포함, 영문판)

제니 홀 지음

아이보리잉크 2025년 10월 14일 출간

작품소개

책소개

* 이 도서는 영어만으로 구성되어 있습니다.
'바이킹 전설들 / Viking Tales'는 바이킹 시대의 용기, 모험, 지혜가 담긴 이야기를 쉽고 흥미롭게 전해주는 영문판 도서입니다. 아이들을 위한 매력적인 삽화와 함께, 북구 신화와 전설 속 영웅들의 삶과 모험을 생생하게 경험할 수 있습니다. 본 도서는 영어 원문으로 출간되어 자연스럽게 영어 독해 실력을 향상시키고, 문화적 배경지식도 넓힐 수 있는 이점이 있습니다. 초중등 학생부터 성인 독자까지 모두에게 적합한 고전 명작으로, 원서 읽기를 시작하는 분들에게 안전한 첫걸음이 되어줄 것입니다.

목차

표지
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PART I
IN NORWAY
The Baby
The Tooth Thrall
Olaf’s Farm
Olaf’s Fight With Havard
Foes’-fear
Harald is King
Harald’s Battle
Gyda’s Saucy Message
The Sea Fight
King Harald’s Wedding
King Harald Goes West-Over-Seas
PART II
WEST-OVER-SEAS
Homes in Iceland
Eric the Red
Leif and His New Land
Wineland the Good
copyrights
(참고) 분량: 약 18 만자

책 속으로

What the sagas were is a little country far north in the cold sea. Men found it and went there to live more than a thousand years ago. During the warm season they used to fish and make fish-oil and hunt sea-birds and gather feathers and tend their sheep and make hay. But the winters were long and dark and cold. Men and women and children stayed in the house and carded and spun and wove and knit. A whole family sat for hours around the fire in the middle of the room. That fire gave the only light. Shadows flitted in the dark corners. Smoke curled along the high beams in the ceiling. The children sat on the dirt floor close by the fire. The grown people were on a long narrow bench that they had pulled up to the light and warmth. Everybody’s hands were busy with wool. The work left their minds free to think and their lips to talk. What was there to talk about? The summer’s fishing, the killing of a fox, a voyage to Norway. But the people grew tired of this little gossip. Fathers looked at their children and thought:
"They are not learning much. What will make them brave and wise? What will teach them to love their country and old Norway? Will not the stories of battles, of brave deeds, of mighty men, do this?"
So, as the family worked in the red fire-light, the father told of the kings of Norway, of long voyages to strange lands, of good fights. And in farmhouses all through Iceland these old tales were told over and over until everybody knew them and loved them. Some men could sing and play the harp. This made the stories all the more interesting. People called such men "skalds," and they called their songs "sagas."
Every midsummer there was a great meeting. Men from all over Iceland came to it and made laws. During the day there were rest times, when no business was going on. Then some skald would take his harp and walk to a large stone or a knoll and stand on it and begin a song of some brave deed of an old Norse hero. At the first sound of the harp and the voice, men came running from all directions, crying out:
"The skald! The skald! A saga!"
They stood about for hours and listened. They shouted applause. When the skald was tired, some other man would come up from the crowd and sing or tell a story. As the skald stepped down from his high position, some rich man would rush up to him and say:
"Come and spend next winter at my house. Our ears are thirsty for song."
So the best skalds traveled much and visited many people. Their songs made them welcome everywhere. They were always honored with good seats at a feast. They were given many rich gifts. Even the King of Norway would sometimes send across the water to Iceland, saying to some famous skald:
"Come and visit me. You shall not go away empty-handed. Men say that the sweetest songs are in Iceland. I wish to hear them."
These tales were not written. Few men wrote or read in those days. Skalds learned songs from hearing them sung. At last people began to write more easily. Then they said:
"These stories are very precious. We must write them down to save them from being forgotten."
After that many men in Iceland spent their winters in writing books. They wrote on sheepskin; vellum, we call it. Many of these old vellum books have been saved for hundreds of years, and are now in museums in Norway. Some leaves are lost, some are torn, all are yellow and crumpled. But they are precious. They tell us all that we know about that olden time. There are the very words that the men of Iceland wrote so long ago—stories of kings and of battles and of ship-sailing. Some of those old stories I have told in this book.

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저자(글) 제니 홀

제니 홀(Jennie Hall)은 미국의 작가이자 교육자로, 어린이와 청소년을 위한 역사 및 문학 작품을 집필해왔습니다. 그녀의 대표작 'Viking Tales'는 간결하면서도 생동감 있는 문체와 아이들이 쉽게 따라갈 수 있는 스토리 전개로 호평받아왔습니다. 제니 홀은 독자들에게 재미있고 유익한 역사 이야기를 전하고자 노력했으며, 다양한 연령층에게 오랫동안 사랑받는 작가로 남아 있습니다.<br /><br />