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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... Heroes and the Pronouncing Index) of The Poetic Edda, originally published as volumes XXI and XXII of the Scandinavian Classics series by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, and Oxford University Press, London, in 1923 ...
... Heroes and the Pronouncing Index) of The Poetic Edda, originally published as volumes XXI and XXII of the Scandinavian Classics series by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, and Oxford University Press, London, in 1923 ...
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... Heroes are not included in this edition. Readers should keep this in mind when, in the General Introduction on the following pages, Bellows mentions (at the bottom of page xviii, for example) “the heroic lays,” or when (on page xv) he ...
... Heroes are not included in this edition. Readers should keep this in mind when, in the General Introduction on the following pages, Bellows mentions (at the bottom of page xviii, for example) “the heroic lays,” or when (on page xv) he ...
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... hero poems give us, in its oldest and most vivid extant form, the story of Sigurth, Brynhild, and Atli, the Norse parallel to the German N ibelungenlied. The Poetic Edda is not only of great interest to the student of antiquity ; it is ...
... hero poems give us, in its oldest and most vivid extant form, the story of Sigurth, Brynhild, and Atli, the Norse parallel to the German N ibelungenlied. The Poetic Edda is not only of great interest to the student of antiquity ; it is ...
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... hero cycles, one or two of them appear to be as late as I 100, but most of them clearly belong to the hundred years following 950. It is a fairly safe guess that the years between 900 and 1050 saw the majority of the Eddie poems put ...
... hero cycles, one or two of them appear to be as late as I 100, but most of them clearly belong to the hundred years following 950. It is a fairly safe guess that the years between 900 and 1050 saw the majority of the Eddie poems put ...
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