Saga Six Pack 4 presents a sizzling sextet of Scandinavian super-sagas: In The Days of Giants - A Book of Norse Tales by Abbie Farwell Brown
Saga of Halfdan the Black by Snorri Sturluson
True and Untrue by George Webb Dasent
Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and his Brothers Eystein and Olaf by Snorri Sturluson
King Alfred's Viking - A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. Whistler
Little Annie the Goose-girl by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
About the Author: Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (15 January 1812 - 6 January 1885) was a Norwegian writer and scholar. He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore.
Abbie Farwell Brown (August 21, 1871 - March 5, 1927) was an American author. Original stories by Brown include The Lonesomest Doll (1901), The Flower Princess (1904), John of the Woods (1909), and The Lucky Stone (1914).
George Webbe Dasent (1817-1896) was a translator of folk tales and contributor to The Times.
Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (22 April 1813 - 27 March 1882) was a Norwegian folklorist, bishop, poet and author. He is best known for the Norske Folkeeventyr, a collection of Norwegian folk tales which he edited in collaboration with Peter Christen Asbjørnsen.
Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was elected twice as a law-speaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He was the author of the Prose Edda or Younger Edda, which consists of Gylfaginning ("the fooling of Gylfi"), a narrative of Norse mythology, the Skáldskaparmál, a book of poetic language, and the Háttatal, a list of verse forms.
The Reverend Charles Watts Whistler (November 14, 1856 - June 10, 1913) was a writer of historic fiction that plays between 600 and 1100 AD, usually based on early English/Saxon chronicles, Norse or Danish Sagas and archaeological discoveries.
