The Poetic Edda: The Mythological PoemsCourier Corporation, 2012 M03 8 - 288 páginas The vibrant Old Norse poems in this collection, which may have been brought together as early as the thirteenth century, authentically capture the ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen. In addition, their images of a mythical world profoundly influenced latter-day storytellers as Richard Wagner and J. R. R. Tolkien. Known as the "Lays of the Gods," these mythological poems include the Voluspo, one of the broadest conceptions of the world's creation and ultimate destruction ever crystallized in literary form; the Hovamol, a compilation of sagacious counsels reminiscent of the biblical book of Proverbs; the Lokasenna, a comedy bursting with vivid characterizations; and the Thrymskvitha, a ballad of enduring loveliness. The Poetic Edda is not only of the highest interest to students of antiquity; in the exceptionally detailed and complete translations included here, it offers lovers of poetry and myth some of the most remarkable surviving specimens from a distant age of poet-singers and oral traditions. |
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... Codex Regius (R2365), has been the basis for all published editions of the Eddie poems. A few poems of similar character found elsewhere have subsequently been added to the collection, until now most [xiv] Introduction.
... Codex Regius (R2365), has been the basis for all published editions of the Eddie poems. A few poems of similar character found elsewhere have subsequently been added to the collection, until now most [xiv] Introduction.
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... Codex Regius, and one other, Baldrs Draumar, not found in that collection. Four other poems (Rigsthula, H yndluljoth, Grougaldr and F jolsoinnsmol, the last two here combined under the title of Soipdagsmol), from various manuscripts, so ...
... Codex Regius, and one other, Baldrs Draumar, not found in that collection. Four other poems (Rigsthula, H yndluljoth, Grougaldr and F jolsoinnsmol, the last two here combined under the title of Soipdagsmol), from various manuscripts, so ...
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... Codex Regius, a copy made a hundred years or so later, represents at least a considerable part of one of these, and that the collection of thirty-four poems which we now know as the Poetic or Elder Edda is practically all that has come ...
... Codex Regius, a copy made a hundred years or so later, represents at least a considerable part of one of these, and that the collection of thirty-four poems which we now know as the Poetic or Elder Edda is practically all that has come ...
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... Codex Regius the superscription “the Greenland poem,” and internal evidence indicates that this statement is correct. Certainly in one poem, the Rigsthula, and probably in several others, there are marks of Celtic influence. During a ...
... Codex Regius the superscription “the Greenland poem,” and internal evidence indicates that this statement is correct. Certainly in one poem, the Rigsthula, and probably in several others, there are marks of Celtic influence. During a ...
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... Codex Regius-— Saemund or another—was himself doubtless responsible for the patchwork process, often supplemented by narrative prose notes of his own; but in the days before written records existed, it was easy to lose stanzas and ...
... Codex Regius-— Saemund or another—was himself doubtless responsible for the patchwork process, often supplemented by narrative prose notes of his own; but in the days before written records existed, it was easy to lose stanzas and ...
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