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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... presumably some fifty or sixty years after Snorri's death , which was in 1241 , we find : " This book is called Edda , which Snorri Sturluson composed . " This work , well known as the Prose Edda , Snorri's Edda or the Younger Edda ...
... presumably some fifty or sixty years after Snorri's death , which was in 1241 , we find : " This book is called Edda , which Snorri Sturluson composed . " This work , well known as the Prose Edda , Snorri's Edda or the Younger Edda ...
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... presumably did not trouble them in the least . It is , in effect , a series of gigantic pictures , put into words with a directness and sureness which bespeak the poet of genius . It is only after the reader , with the help of the many ...
... presumably did not trouble them in the least . It is , in effect , a series of gigantic pictures , put into words with a directness and sureness which bespeak the poet of genius . It is only after the reader , with the help of the many ...
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... ) , of the dead ( Niflheim ) , and presumably of the dwarfs ( perhaps Nithavellir , cf. stanza 37 and note , but the ninth world is uncertain ) . The tree : the world - ash Yggdrasil , 3. Of old was the age Sea nor cool waves [ 3 ] Voluspo.
... ) , of the dead ( Niflheim ) , and presumably of the dwarfs ( perhaps Nithavellir , cf. stanza 37 and note , but the ninth world is uncertain ) . The tree : the world - ash Yggdrasil , 3. Of old was the age Sea nor cool waves [ 3 ] Voluspo.
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... . Most of the names presumably had some definite significance , as Northri , Suthri , Austri , and Vestri ( " North , " " South , " " East , " and " West " ) , Althjof 12. Vigg and Gandalf , Thekk and Thorin , Nyr [ 6 ] Poetic Edda.
... . Most of the names presumably had some definite significance , as Northri , Suthri , Austri , and Vestri ( " North , " " South , " " East , " and " West " ) , Althjof 12. Vigg and Gandalf , Thekk and Thorin , Nyr [ 6 ] Poetic Edda.
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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