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 lit- erary secretary , for her efficient management of the complex details of publication . T GENERAL INTRODUCTION HERE is scarcely any literary work of.
... manuscript and the proofs ; and to Hanna Astrup Larsen , the Foundation's lit- erary secretary , for her efficient management of the complex details of publication . T GENERAL INTRODUCTION HERE is scarcely any literary work of.
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... manuscript , clearly written as early as 1300 , 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 ...
... manuscript , clearly written as early as 1300 , 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 ...
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... manuscript now in the Arnamagnæan collection in Copenhagen ( AM748 ) , contains fragmen- tary or complete versions ... manuscripts , so closely resemble in subject - matter and style the poems in the Codex Regius that they have been ...
... manuscript now in the Arnamagnæan collection in Copenhagen ( AM748 ) , contains fragmen- tary or complete versions ... manuscripts , so closely resemble in subject - matter and style the poems in the Codex Regius that they have been ...
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... manuscripts . That Sæmund 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 Sæmund had ...
... manuscripts . That Sæmund 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 Sæmund had ...
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... manuscripts , followed here , seems logical . In stanza 1 the Volva , or wise - woman , called upon by Othin , answers him and demands a hearing . Evidently she be- longs to the race of the giants ( cf. stanza 2 ) , and thus speaks to ...
... manuscripts , followed here , seems logical . In stanza 1 the Volva , or wise - woman , called upon by Othin , answers him and demands a hearing . Evidently she be- longs to the race of the giants ( cf. stanza 2 ) , and thus speaks to ...
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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