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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... lost, may have existed in such collections as were current in Iceland in the later twelfth and thirteenth centuries we cannot know, though it is evident that some poems of this type are missing. We can say only that thirty-four poems ...
... lost, may have existed in such collections as were current in Iceland in the later twelfth and thirteenth centuries we cannot know, though it is evident that some poems of this type are missing. We can say only that thirty-four poems ...
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... lost its independence, becoming a Norwegian province. Later Norway too fell under alien rule, a Swede ascending the Norwegian throne in I 320. Pestilence and famine laid waste the whole North; volcanic disturbances worked havoc in ...
... lost its independence, becoming a Norwegian province. Later Norway too fell under alien rule, a Swede ascending the Norwegian throne in I 320. Pestilence and famine laid waste the whole North; volcanic disturbances worked havoc in ...
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... lost after this stanza, and the missing passage, replaced by the catalogue of the dwarfs (stanzas 9-16), may have explained the “giant-maids” otherwise than as Norns. In Vaft/zruthnismol, 49, the Norns (this time “three throngs” instead ...
... lost after this stanza, and the missing passage, replaced by the catalogue of the dwarfs (stanzas 9-16), may have explained the “giant-maids” otherwise than as Norns. In Vaft/zruthnismol, 49, the Norns (this time “three throngs” instead ...
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... lost, for there is no apparent connection between the three giant-maids of stanza 8 and the three gods, Othin, Htinir and Lothur, who in stanza 17 go forth to create man and woman. The word “three” in stanzas 8 and 17 very likely ...
... lost, for there is no apparent connection between the three giant-maids of stanza 8 and the three gods, Othin, Htinir and Lothur, who in stanza 17 go forth to create man and woman. The word “three” in stanzas 8 and 17 very likely ...
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Alvis answer appear Baldr battle beginning Brimir bring called century Codex collection comes concerning daughter dead drink dwarfs dwelling early earth Edda editors elsewhere evil fair fare fate father Fenrir fight find fire first Freyja Freyr Frigg giants give gods gold Grimnismol hall hand head hear hero indicated interpolated introductory king knowest known land late live Loki lost magic manuscript means mentioned mighty mother never night nine Norse original Othin passage poem presumably probably prose question quotes race rede reference Regius runes seek seems shalt Snorri sons soon spake speak speech stands stanza story suggests Svipdag sword tell thee Thor Thor spake Thor’s thou thou hast translation Vafthruthnir various Voluspo Wanes whole wife wisdom wise wolf