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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... races which we call Germanic. Moreover, it has a literary value altogether apart from its historical significance. The mythological poems include, in the Volusjw, one of the vastest conceptions of the creation and ultimate destruction ...
... races which we call Germanic. Moreover, it has a literary value altogether apart from its historical significance. The mythological poems include, in the Volusjw, one of the vastest conceptions of the creation and ultimate destruction ...
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... racial feelings and beliefs; they are anything but crude or primitive in workmanship, and they show that not only the ... race. Some scholars claim nearly all the Eddic poems for these “Western Isles,” in sharp distinction from Iceland ...
... racial feelings and beliefs; they are anything but crude or primitive in workmanship, and they show that not only the ... race. Some scholars claim nearly all the Eddic poems for these “Western Isles,” in sharp distinction from Iceland ...
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... . The poets wrote mostly doggerel; the prose writers were devoid of national or racial inspiration. The mass of literature thus collected and written down largely between I I 50 and 1250 may be roughly [xxi] Introduction.
... . The poets wrote mostly doggerel; the prose writers were devoid of national or racial inspiration. The mass of literature thus collected and written down largely between I I 50 and 1250 may be roughly [xxi] Introduction.
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... race, a clearer insight into the glories of that extraordinary past, and that I 'may through this medium be able to bring to others asmall part of the delight which I myself have found in the poems of the Poetic Edda. THE POETIC EDDA ...
... race, a clearer insight into the glories of that extraordinary past, and that I 'may through this medium be able to bring to others asmall part of the delight which I myself have found in the poems of the Poetic Edda. THE POETIC EDDA ...
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... races which had already been converted, and in many ways the Celtic influence was strongly felt. It seems likely, then, that the Voluspo was the work of a poet living chiefly in Iceland, though possibly in the “Western Isles,” in the ...
... races which had already been converted, and in many ways the Celtic influence was strongly felt. It seems likely, then, that the Voluspo was the work of a poet living chiefly in Iceland, though possibly in the “Western Isles,” in the ...
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