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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... Edda , originally published as volumes XXI and XXII of the Scandinavian Classics series by the American ... Edda Sæmundar . English . Selections The poetic Eddas : the mythological poems / translated from the Icelandic with an ...
... Edda , originally published as volumes XXI and XXII of the Scandinavian Classics series by the American ... Edda Sæmundar . English . Selections The poetic Eddas : the mythological poems / translated from the Icelandic with an ...
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... Edda it is here needless to dwell at any length . We have inherited the Germanic traditions in our very speech , and the Poetic Edda is the original storehouse of Germanic mythology . It is , indeed , in many ways the greatest literary ...
... Edda it is here needless to dwell at any length . We have inherited the Germanic traditions in our very speech , and the Poetic Edda is the original storehouse of Germanic mythology . It is , indeed , in many ways the greatest literary ...
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Younger Edda , has recently been made available to readers of English in the admirable translation by Arthur G. Brodeur , published by the American - Scandinavian Foun- dation in 1916 . Icelandic tradition , however , persisted in ...
Younger Edda , has recently been made available to readers of English in the admirable translation by Arthur G. Brodeur , published by the American - Scandinavian Foun- dation in 1916 . Icelandic tradition , however , persisted in ...
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... edda " used in one of the poems , the Rigsthula , where , rather conjecturally , it means " great - grandmother . " The word exists in this sense no- where else in Norse literature , and Grimm's suggestion of " Tales of a Grandmother ...
... edda " used in one of the poems , the Rigsthula , where , rather conjecturally , it means " great - grandmother . " The word exists in this sense no- where else in Norse literature , and Grimm's suggestion of " Tales of a Grandmother ...
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Ægir Ægir's Alvis spake answer appear Arnamagnæan Codex Baldr Baldrs Draumar Bragi Bugge called Codex Regius daughter Dvalin dwarfs earth Eddic poems editors elves emendation fain fare father Fenrir Fjolsvith spake following stanza Freyja Freyr Frigg gain if thou Geirröth giantess giants goddess gods Grimnismol hall hammer Harbarth spake Harbarthsljoth hast if thou hear thou Heimdall hero Hovamol Hrungnir Hymir Hymiskvitha Hyndla Iceland interpolated INTRODUCTORY NOTE introductory prose learnest Loddfafnir Lokasenna Loki Loki spake Loki's magic maid mead Mengloth mighty Njorth Norse o'er Othin spake Ottar Poetic Edda Profit thou hast Prose Edda race rede thee Rigsthula runes shalt thou Skathi Skirnir Skirnismol slain Snorri quotes sons stanza stanza 29 story Svipdag Svipdag spake sword Thjazi Thor spake Thor's thou art thou hearest thou knowest Thrymskvitha thy gain Vafthruthnir Vafthruthnir spake Vafthruthnismol Valhall Vithar Voluspo Wanes wife wisdom wise wise-woman word Yggdrasil