Eric Brighteyes
a novel
- First published:
- 19th century
- Languages: Chinese, Dutch, English
- Content type: Fiction
"Eric Brighteyes" by H. Rider Haggard is a novel published in 1891. Set in 10th-century Iceland, it follows Eric Thorgrimursson as he battles to win the hand of Gudruda the Fair against her father's opposition. His quest becomes perilous when Gudruda's half-sister Swanhild, a sorceress who desires Eric for herself, unleashes deadly intrigues and treachery. Written as an early pastiche of saga literature, this epic Viking tale blends violent conflict with Norse mysticism in a doom-laden adventure. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and project-gutenberg matched “folklore”, “mythology”, and “Sagas”. Retained metadata contains “saga” in the description and “Sagas” in the subject metadata.
- “Sagas”· via Open Library
- “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
- “mythology”· via Project Gutenberg
- “saga”· in description
- “Sagas”· in subject
Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.
Read & download
Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.
- EPUB (opens in a new tab)
- HTML (opens in a new tab)
- Plain text (opens in a new tab)
- Landing page (opens in a new tab)
Project Gutenberg ebook; public domain in the USA. Public domain in the USA.
- Online reader (opens in a new tab)
- Online reader (opens in a new tab)
- Online reader (opens in a new tab)
Publicly readable scan; copyright status may vary by jurisdiction.
Not yet in passage search
Pro research answers quote indexed passages. Ask the library to index this book’s public text.
marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.
Buy or borrow
- Buy on Amazon (opens in a new tab)
- Find in a library (opens in a new tab)
- Open Library (opens in a new tab)
Links to ISBN 0217209106; other editions may be cheaper. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.
Editions
Open Library reports 215 editions; 2 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
a novel Open Library record | 1891 | Harper & brothers | English | — | Public | |
Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition. | 2006-03-31 | Project Gutenberg | English | — | Public domain (USA) |
Subjects
More like this
Books that share this work's traditions, subjects, or authors.
- Read free
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Lee and Shepard, Shepard & Dillingham Lee, John Wilson and Son, Charles Dickens, Anne Collins, Margaret Tarner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Maisha Books, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Storker, M. Bram Stocker, M. Philippe Ballin, Eve Paul-Margueritte in 1920, Bram Stolker, Bram BRAM STOKER, Braum Stoker, BramStoker, Warren Publishing Company, Esis Nem, Paper Mill Press Bram Stoker, Books Tor, Gustavo Aguilera, Classical Comics, Nik Maguire, Moon Dragon, Collectifs, Julio Rodríguez Puértolas, Hutchinson Emily, Period Time Publishing, D. P. Stevens Edition, Bryan Hunt, A. J. Alexander, Classic Collections, Stoker, Heinz Widtmann, Yordi Abreu, Bi Classics, Alex Stewart, Si tuo ke, BRAM STOCKER - E. NOBATI, Tabib Haider, Bram Stroker, Matthew Corrigan, Bram Stocker, Fernando Fernández, Anna Gasol Trullols, Andrew Struthers, Bram Bram, HellBound Books Publishing LLC, Christina Widmann, Rudyard Kipling, John Lockwood Kipling, Howard Pyle, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, George Alfred Williams, Arthur Rackham, John Leech, Howard Bloom, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Danide, Núria Pradas, Carmen Gil, Juan Antonio Molina Foix, Mario Montalbán, Leonard Wolf, ClassyBookRead, Destinyalready Creative Writing Ink, Fay Weldon, Bess Georges, Alba Pagán, David Stuart Davies, David Rogers, A. R. S. BEL, Ferdinand Du Chevalier, Abraham Stoker, Sarah Prescott, Alex Rouse, Bram Stoke, A. Nessi, Liz Lochhead, Lewis; Tenniel Carroll
1800
- Read free
The world's desire
H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang
1890
- Read free
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum, William Wallace Denslow
1899
- Read free
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
1895
- Read free
Persuasion
Jane Austen
1789
- Read free
Hrabě Monte Cristo. Díl 1 a 2 (třísvazkové vydání)
Alexandre Dumas
1830
- Read free
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
0 CE
- Read free
Rose in Bloom
Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Roosevelt Richards
1876
- Read free
She
H. Rider Haggard, Green Longmans, printer Spottiswoode & Co.
1886
- Read free
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen, K. M. Metcalfe, H. Mayer, Elizabeth Bishop, Henry Thomas Austen, John Murray, Charles Roworth
1818
- Read free
Lilith
George MacDonald
1850
- Read free
The golden asse of Lucius Apuleius
Ovid, Lucius Apuleius, Ed T.E. Page, W.; Gaselee Adlington, William Adlington, Stephen Gaselee, William Adlingotn, William Howe, Abraham Veale, Conrad Seiler, George Saintsbury, Apuleius, Charles Whibley, W. Adlington And S. Gaselee, Thomas Taylor, Mary Tighe, Hudson Gurney, Robert Graves, John C. Griffiths, Jacob van der Vliet, Ĭosyp Kobiv, I︠U︡riĭ T︠S︡ymbali︠u︡k, Jean de Montlyard, Filippo Beroaldo, Giovanni Andrea Bussi, Aristotle, Pietro Balbi, Konrad Sweynheim, Arnold Pannartz, Filiberto Remigio conte Costa della Trinità, Adriana R. Salem, Boies Penrose, Hermes Trismegistus, Albinus, Pierre Médan, Lucius of Madaura, August Rode, Carlos García Gual, ʻAlī Fahmī Khashīm, Ermil Ivanovich Kostrov, J. A. Maury, James Morwood, S. ʻEli, Rudolf Helm, Paulus Thomas, Edward Carpenter, W. H. D. Rouse, Paul Carus, Anna Morena Mozzillo, Alejandro Coroleu, Antonio Betancor, Gervaso Orefice, Eduard Norden, L. Osborn, Charles Stuttaford, Jessie Mothersole, Erich Neumann, Yoram Bronowski, Jean de La Fontaine, John Lockman, Claude-Ignace Brugière de Barante, Antoine-Denis Bailly, Raphael, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Karl Weyman, A. J. Pons, Walter Pater, Laurel Press, Otto Jahn, John Lyde Wilson, Lucio Apuleyo, Lucio Apuleio, Apuleio, Marina Cavalli, Costanza Viareggi, Agnolo Firenzuola, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Nicolò Zoppino, Vicentio
1469
Identifiers & provenance
How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.
Identifiers
- ISBN-13
- ISBN-10
- LCCN
- OCLC
- Open Library work
- Project Gutenberg
Cataloged from
- Open LibraryOL17535W (opens in a new tab)
- Project Gutenberg2721 (opens in a new tab)
Cataloging notes
- Open Library reports 215 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL17535W
- Edition coverage
- Multi source partial
- Retrieved