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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... manuscript and the proofs; and to Hanna Astrup Larsen, the Foundation's literary secretary, for her efiicient management of the complex details of publication. GENERAL INTRODUCTION THERE is scarcely any literary work of great.
... manuscript and the proofs; and to Hanna Astrup Larsen, the Foundation's literary secretary, for her efiicient management of the complex details of publication. GENERAL INTRODUCTION THERE is scarcely any literary work of great.
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... manuscripts of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is a prose work consisting of a very extensive ... manuscript written presumably some fifty or sixty years after Snorri's death, which was in 1241, we find: “This book ...
... manuscripts of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is a prose work consisting of a very extensive ... manuscript written presumably some fifty or sixty years after Snorri's death, which was in 1241, we find: “This book ...
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... manuscript, clearly written as early as I300, containing twenty-nine poems, complete or fragmentary, and some of them with the very lines and stanzas used by Snorri. Great was the joy of the scholars, for here, of course, must be at ...
... manuscript, clearly written as early as I300, containing twenty-nine poems, complete or fragmentary, and some of them with the very lines and stanzas used by Snorri. Great was the joy of the scholars, for here, of course, must be at ...
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... manuscript now in the Arnamagnaean collection in Copenhagen (AM748), contains fragmentary or complete versions of six of the poems in the Codex Regius, and one other, Baldrs Draumar, not found in that collection. Four other poems ...
... manuscript now in the Arnamagnaean collection in Copenhagen (AM748), contains fragmentary or complete versions of six of the poems in the Codex Regius, and one other, Baldrs Draumar, not found in that collection. Four other poems ...
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... manuscripts. That Saemund may also have written or compiled another “Oddi-Book” is perfectly possible, and that tradition should have said he did so is entirely natural. ' It is, however, an open question whether or not Smmund had ...
... manuscripts. That Saemund may also have written or compiled another “Oddi-Book” is perfectly possible, and that tradition should have said he did so is entirely natural. ' It is, however, an open question whether or not Smmund had ...
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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