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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... sons of Gjuki, Atli (Attila), and Jormunrek (Ermanarich). The introductory notes to the various 'poems deal with the more important of these questions of origin. Of the men who composed these poems,——“wrote” is obviously the [xviii] ...
... sons of Gjuki, Atli (Attila), and Jormunrek (Ermanarich). The introductory notes to the various 'poems deal with the more important of these questions of origin. Of the men who composed these poems,——“wrote” is obviously the [xviii] ...
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... son of Jorth. Ljothahattr: , He must early go forth who fain the blood Or the goods of another would get; The wolf that lies idle shall win little meat, Or the sleeping man success. Malahattr: Wise was the woman, she fain would use ...
... son of Jorth. Ljothahattr: , He must early go forth who fain the blood Or the goods of another would get; The wolf that lies idle shall win little meat, Or the sleeping man success. Malahattr: Wise was the woman, she fain would use ...
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... sons is uncertain, and the phrase has caused much perplexity. Heimdall seems to have had various attributes, and in the Rigsthula, wherein a certain Rig appears as the ancestor of the three great classes of men, a fourteenth century ...
... sons is uncertain, and the phrase has caused much perplexity. Heimdall seems to have had various attributes, and in the Rigsthula, wherein a certain Rig appears as the ancestor of the three great classes of men, a fourteenth century ...
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... sons lifted the level land, Mithgarth the mighty there they made; The sun from the south warmed the stones of earth, And green was the .ground with growing leeks. 5. The sun, the sister of the moon, from the south Her right hand cast ...
... sons lifted the level land, Mithgarth the mighty there they made; The sun from the south warmed the stones of earth, And green was the .ground with growing leeks. 5. The sun, the sister of the moon, from the south Her right hand cast ...
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... son of Mundilferi, cf. Vaft/zruthnismol, 23 and note, and Grimnismol, 37 and note. 6. Possibly an interpolation, but there seems no strong reason for assuming this. Lines 1-2 are identical with lines 1-2 of stanza 9, and line 2 may have ...
... son of Mundilferi, cf. Vaft/zruthnismol, 23 and note, and Grimnismol, 37 and note. 6. Possibly an interpolation, but there seems no strong reason for assuming this. Lines 1-2 are identical with lines 1-2 of stanza 9, and line 2 may have ...
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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