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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... century ago , and the unsatisfactory prose translations in Vigfusson and Powell's Corpus Poeti- cum Boreale , reprinted in the Norræna collection . An excellent translation of the poems dealing with the gods , in verse and with critical ...
... century ago , and the unsatisfactory prose translations in Vigfusson and Powell's Corpus Poeti- cum Boreale , reprinted in the Norræna collection . An excellent translation of the poems dealing with the gods , in verse and with critical ...
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... centuries would in itself give them a peculiar interest . Their history is strangely mys- terious . We do not know who composed them , or when or where they were composed ; we are by no means sure who collected them or when he did so ...
... centuries would in itself give them a peculiar interest . Their history is strangely mys- terious . We do not know who composed them , or when or where they were composed ; we are by no means sure who collected them or when he did so ...
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... century , the learned Arngrimur Jonsson proved to everyone's satisfaction that Snorri and nobody else must have been responsible for the work in question , the next thing to determine was what , if anything , Sæmund had done of the same ...
... century , the learned Arngrimur Jonsson proved to everyone's satisfaction that Snorri and nobody else must have been responsible for the work in question , the next thing to determine was what , if anything , Sæmund had done of the same ...
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... centuries we cannot know , though it is evident that some poems of this type are missing . We can say only that thirty - four poems . have been preserved , twenty - nine of them in a single manu- script collection , which differ ...
... centuries we cannot know , though it is evident that some poems of this type are missing . We can say only that thirty - four poems . have been preserved , twenty - nine of them in a single manu- script collection , which differ ...
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... do with making the collection , or any part of it , now known as the Poetic Edda , for of course the seventeenth - century assignment of the work to him is neg- ligible . We can say only that he may have [ xvi ] Introduction.
... do with making the collection , or any part of it , now known as the Poetic Edda , for of course the seventeenth - century assignment of the work to him is neg- ligible . We can say only that he may have [ xvi ] Introduction.
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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