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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... Snorri Sturluson, for at the head of the copy of it in the Uppsalabo/2, a manuscript written presumably some fifty or sixty years after Snorri's death, which was in 1241, we find: “This book is called Edda, which Snorri Sturluson ...
... Snorri Sturluson, for at the head of the copy of it in the Uppsalabo/2, a manuscript written presumably some fifty or sixty years after Snorri's death, which was in 1241, we find: “This book is called Edda, which Snorri Sturluson ...
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... Snorri's much earlier compatriot, Smmund the Wise (I056-I 133). When, early in the seventeenth century, the lea.rned Arngrimur Jonsson proved to everyone's satisfaction that Snorri and nobody else must have been responsible for the work ...
... Snorri's much earlier compatriot, Smmund the Wise (I056-I 133). When, early in the seventeenth century, the lea.rned Arngrimur Jonsson proved to everyone's satisfaction that Snorri and nobody else must have been responsible for the work ...
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... Snorri's Edda contains one complete poem, the Giwttasongr, which many editors have added to the poetic collection; it is, however, not included in this translation, as an admirable English version of it is available in Mr. Brodeur's ...
... Snorri's Edda contains one complete poem, the Giwttasongr, which many editors have added to the poetic collection; it is, however, not included in this translation, as an admirable English version of it is available in Mr. Brodeur's ...
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... Snorri's treatise to a nicety, but which, in addition to the lack of philo1ogical evidence to support this ... Snorri Sturluson for many years, and, traditionally at least, also the home of Saemund the Wise. That Snorri's work should ...
... Snorri's treatise to a nicety, but which, in addition to the lack of philo1ogical evidence to support this ... Snorri Sturluson for many years, and, traditionally at least, also the home of Saemund the Wise. That Snorri's work should ...
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... Snorri Sturluson. The order of the stanzas in the Hauksbok version differs materially from that in the Codex Regius, and in the published editions many experiments have been attempted in further rearrangements. On the Whole, however ...
... Snorri Sturluson. The order of the stanzas in the Hauksbok version differs materially from that in the Codex Regius, and in the published editions many experiments have been attempted in further rearrangements. On the Whole, however ...
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