The World’s Story Volume VIII: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and …
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Eva March Tappan
This is the eighth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part VIII include excerpts from the Eddas, the life of the Vikings, the Scandinavian kings' fight for supremacy and the race towards the North and South Pole. - Summary by Sonia
Cast list for The ghost of Hamlet's father:
Bernardo: alanmapstone / Francisco: Jim Locke / Horatio: Eva Davis / Marcellus: Tomas Peter / Hamlet: Nemo / Narrator: Sonia (16 hr 40 min)
Chapters
King Magnus, who was reformed by a poem (reigned from 1035-1047), by Hjalmar H.…
11:33
Read by Wanda Wilkey
How King Harald Hard-Ruler gave his treasure for his life (1049), by Hjalmar H.…
4:53
Read by Jim Locke
Birchlegs carrying King Hakon, by Knut Bergslien (Norwegian painter, born 1827)…
1:54
Read by cathar maiden
Gustavus Vasa, the saviour of Sweden (1520), by William Widgery Thomas, Jr.
14:38
Read by Max Körlinge
Gustavus Adolphus at Lützen (1632), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
18:01
Read by Jim Locke
How the ''Madman of the North'' defended himself at Bender (1713), by François …
28:23
Read by Jim Locke
Bringing home the body of Charles XII, by Gustav Olaf Cederström (Swedish paint…
2:46
Read by Alan Mapstone
The slaying of the monster Grendel, retold by Florence Holbrook (from ''Beowulf…
18:32
Read by Philip Watson
King Volmer and Elsie, by John G. Whittier (after the Danish of Christian Winte…
9:38
Read by Tomas Peter
The ''Madman of the North'' overcomes Copenhagen (1700), by François Marie Arou…
9:00
Read by Colleen McMahon
The fall of Queen Caroline Mathilda (1772), by G. Hesekiel, from the memoirs of…
16:05
Read by Colleen McMahon
How Kjartan of Iceland became a Christian (about 1000), from the Laxdaeler's Sa…
15:57
Read by Jim Locke
How Grettir the outlaw saved the farmhouse (early eleventh century), from the S…
9:21
Read by April6090
The search for the Poles Part I: Adventures in the frozen North: Historical note
1:42
Read by J. M. Smallheer
The Northwest Passage, by Sir John Everett Millais (English painter, 1829-1896)…
2:13
Read by Tomas Peter