Hellige dyr av Tor Åge Bringsværd (Innbundet)
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Sacred Animals (Innbundet)

Myths, stories and folklore from around the World.

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Tor Åge Bringsværd

Norwegian title: Hellige dyr
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Binding: Innbundet
Year: 2020
Pages: 416
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Språk: Bokmål
ISBN/EAN: 9788202679071
Kategori: Narrative Non-fiction
Overview Hellige dyr

Tor Åge Bringsværd´s beautiful, intriguing and critically acclaimed anthologies Woof and Giddy-Up where collections about the cultural history of the dog and the horse. About the animals place in myths, legends and adventures around the globe. In Sacred Animals he writes about the animals place in the images we have of how everything has come to be. It has become a vital and rich book where Bringsværd in his typical way pours his knowledge and enthusiasm in his presentation and tales of fourteen different holy animals.

These are the animals you find in the book:
Monkey
Bear
Coyote
Spider
Elephant
Whale
Cat
Cow/Ox
Mouse /Rat
Raven
Tortoise
Snake
Tiger
Wolf

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Author Tor Åge Bringsværd

Tor Åge Bringsværd (1939-2025) was one of Norway's most productive and versatile authors and playwrights. Since his debut in 1967, Bringsværd has written over 350 books for adults and children in many different literary genres; novels, short stories, drama, picture books, fables, science fiction, essays, anthologies, general non-fiction and textbooks.

Bringsværd's work is critically acclaimed and earned a number of prestigious prizes, such as the Critics' Prize, the Riverton Prize, the Aschehoug Prize, the Dobloug Prize, the National Language Prize and the Ibsen Prize. In 2024, Tor Åge Bringsværd was appointed Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

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