Richmond, Velma Bourgeois. Nordic Sagas as Children’s Literature : Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures. McFarland, 2022.

Abstract

Velma Bourgeois Richmond’s Nordic Sagas as Children Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures (2023) is part of a series of books dedicated to “establish the richness and diversity of Late Victorian and Edwardian children’s books that retold literatures of national and ethnic heritage” (1). The title promises to examine the link between Nordic sagas and their numerous revisitations in children’s literature. In the introduction, the author writes that her book “establishes an alternative tradition, different in significant ways,” (1) and the sheer number of collected texts and variations is ample evidence of her statement.