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Gwyn Jones

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born

May 24, 1907 in The United Kingdom

died

December 06, 1999

gender

male

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Professor of English from 1940, writer, translator and academic. Chairman of the Welsh Arts Council, CBE, holder of the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon (1963) and the Commander's Cross (1987) of Iceland.

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Books by Gwyn Jones

Average rating: 3.94 · 509 ratings · 52 reviews · 22 distinct works

	A History of the Vikings 3.91 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1968 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Eirik The Red and Other Icelandic Sagas 3.92 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1961 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Mabinogion by Anonymous, Gwyn Jones 3.95 avg rating — 1,693 ratings — published 1410 — 80 editions	My rating:
	The Norse Atlantic Saga: Being the Norse Voyages of Discovery and Settlement to Iceland, Greenland, and North America 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Welsh Legends And Folk Tales 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Classic Welsh Short Stories 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1970	My rating:
	The Oxford Book Of Welsh Verse In English 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1977 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Four Icelandic Sagas 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1935	My rating:
	Scandinavian Legends & Folk-Tales 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1956 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Structured Program Design With Pascal by Gwyn Jones, Mike Headon 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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Quotes by Gwyn Jones

“Even in terms of fiction, nothing in their lives became them like the leaving of it. King Fjolnir rose in the night to make water, fell into a vat of mead and drowned instead; Sveigdir ran after a dwarf when drunk and vanished into a boulder; Vanlandi was trampled to death by a nightmare; Domaldi was sacrificed for good seasons; Dag was struck on the head with a pitchfork when seeking revenge for his sparrow; and so on down to the fifth century.”
― Gwyn Jones

tags: odd-deaths , vikings

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