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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... late William Henry Schofield , Professor of Comparative Literature in Harvard University and President of The Amer- ican - Scandinavian Foundation , under whose guid- ance this translation was begun ; to Henry God- dard Leach , for many ...
... late William Henry Schofield , Professor of Comparative Literature in Harvard University and President of The Amer- ican - Scandinavian Foundation , under whose guid- ance this translation was begun ; to Henry God- dard Leach , for many ...
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... late as 1100 , 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 Eddic poems put into shape , but it must be remembered that many ...
... late as 1100 , 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 Eddic poems put into shape , but it must be remembered that many ...
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... late in the ninth century makes the theory of an Icelandic source for most of the poems plausible . The two Atli lays , with what authority we do not know , bear in the Codex Regius the superscription " the Greenland poem , " and ...
... late in the ninth century makes the theory of an Icelandic source for most of the poems plausible . The two Atli lays , with what authority we do not know , bear in the Codex Regius the superscription " the Greenland poem , " and ...
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... late paper manuscripts . Some editors , however , have called lines 1-3 the remains of a full stanza , with the fourth line lacking , and lines 4-5 the remains of another . The stanza depicts the torments of the two worst classes of ...
... late paper manuscripts . Some editors , however , have called lines 1-3 the remains of a full stanza , with the fourth line lacking , and lines 4-5 the remains of another . The stanza depicts the torments of the two worst classes of ...
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... late paper manuscripts add two lines , running : " Rule he orders , Laws he ordains and rights he fixes , that ever shall live . " The name of this new ruler is nowhere given , and of course the suggestion of Christianity is unavoidable ...
... late paper manuscripts add two lines , running : " Rule he orders , Laws he ordains and rights he fixes , that ever shall live . " The name of this new ruler is nowhere given , and of course the suggestion of Christianity is unavoidable ...
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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