While preparing my notes for Runes and Runology, my presentation at ConVocation, I discovered that Maureen Halsall's book The Old English Rune Poem: a critical edition is now available in paperback for thirty bucks!
Buy it now. Seriously. This is one of the very best academic books on the OERP ever written.
While on the subject of books, it appears that Maria Kvilhaug's excellently written but poorly produced (i.e., blame the publisher) book, Seed of Yggdrasil, is now available as an ebook. For $50. For shame, Whyte Tracks Books, for absolute shame.
They gave us delay after delay on the original book and when it finally came out, the printing is *awful* (looks almost like dot-matrix in some places, images are pale and grainy), the binding is second-rate (at best) and *now* they're offering a bloody ebook for the same $50 I paid for the hardcover (which has now jumped up to $75)! I would rather give my money directly to the author than give these asshats another cent. (And you can! She's self-published a number of wonderful fiction stories as well as some of her translations, which you can find on her website http://freya.theladyofthelabyrinth.com/). I hope that eventually she gets the rights back to Seed of Yggdrasil and self-publishers it. I would buy it from her directly in a heartbeat (even for another $50)--but I cannot justify giving her publisher any more money. When I contacted them to complain, all I got were lame apologies and an attempt to blame Amazon, from whom I'd purchased the book.
No comments:
Post a Comment