The Poetic Edda The Mythological Poems
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The Poetic Edda The Mythological Poems
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012-03-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780486139050 |
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The ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen live on in these translations known as the "Lays of the Gods." This 13th-century collection recaptures a mythical world that influenced Tolkien and other storytellers.
The Poetic Edda
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780292792548 |
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The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early Christian times. Collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, The Poetic Edda was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars. Even then its value as poetry, as a source of historical information, and as a collection of entertaining stories was recognized. This meticulous translation succeeds in reproducing the verse patterns, the rhythm, the mood, and the dignity of the original in a revision that Scandinavian Studies says "may well grace anyone's bookshelf."
The Poetic Edda
Author | : Ursula Dronke |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105217613178 |
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This volume presents four of the most intricate and fascinating mythological poems of the Poetic Edda - 'Hávamál', 'Hymiskvia', 'Grímnismál', and 'Gróttasöngr' - with parallel translations, introductions, and illuminating commentaries.
The Poetic Edda
Author | : Paul Acker,Carolyne Larrington |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2002-02-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136601354 |
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This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of the major poems, this book yields a variety of powerful and convincing readings. Contributors to the collection are both young scholars and senior figures in the discipline, and are of varying nationalities (American, British, Australian, Scandinavian, and Icelandic), thus ensuring a range of interpretations from different corners of the scholarly community. The new translations included here make available for the first time to English speaking students the intriguing methodologies that are currently developing in Scandinavia. An essential collection of scholarship for any Old Norse course, The Poetic Edda will also be of interest to scholars of Indo-European myth, as well as those who study the theory of myth.
The Poetic Edda
Author | : Henry Adams Bellows |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-03-14 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780486140605 |
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This vibrant compilation presents the heroic sagas of ancient Scandinavia. Its timeless legends of superhuman warriors and doomed lovers have inspired Wagner's "Ring Cycle" and Tolkien's "Middle-earth."
Edda Saemundar
Author | : Olive Bray |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015003632950 |
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Icelandic Poetry Or The Edda of Saemund
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1797 |
Genre | : Edda Sæmundar |
ISBN | : OXFORD:400068049 |
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The Poetic Edda
Author | : Saemund |
Publsiher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 1438 |
Release | : 1923-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781465573827 |
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THERE is scarcely any literary work of great importance which has been less readily available for the general reader, or even for the serious student of literature, than the Poetic Edda. Translations have been far from numerous, and only in Germany has the complete work of translation been done in the full light of recent scholarship. In English the only versions were long the conspicuously inadequate one made by Thorpe, and published about half a century ago, and the unsatisfactory prose translations in Vigfusson and Powell's Corpus Poeticum Boreale, reprinted in the Norrna collection. An excellent translation of the poems dealing with the gods, in verse and with critical and explanatory notes, made by Olive Bray, was, however, published by the Viking Club of London in 1908. In French there exist only partial translations, chief among them being those made by Bergmann many years ago. Among the seven or eight German versions, those by the Brothers Grimm and by Karl Simrock, which had considerable historical importance because of their influence on nineteenth century German literature and art, and particularly on the work of Richard Wagner, have been largely superseded by Hugo Gering's admirable translation, published in 1892, and by the recent two volume rendering by Genzmer, with excellent notes by Andreas Heusler, 194-1920. There are competent translations in both Norwegian and Swedish. The lack of any complete and adequately annotated English rendering in metrical form, based on a critical text, and profiting by the cumulative labors of such scholars as Mogk, Vigfusson, Finnur Jonsson, Grundtvig, Bugge, Gislason, Hildebrand, Lüning, Sweet, Niedner, Ettmüller, Müllenhoff, Edzardi, B. M. Olsen, Sievers, Sijmons, Detter, Heinzel, Falk, Neckel, Heusler, and Gering, has kept this extraordinary work practically out of the reach of those who have had neither time nor inclination to master the intricacies of the original Old Norse. On the importance of the material contained in the Poetic Edda it is here needless to dwell at any length. We have inherited the Germanic traditions in our very speech, and the Poetic Edda is the original storehouse of Germanic mythology. It is, indeed, in many ways the greatest literary monument preserved to us out of the antiquity of the kindred races which we call Germanic. Moreover, it has a literary value altogether apart from its historical significance. The mythological poems include, in the Voluspo, one of the vastest conceptions of the creation and ultimate destruction of the world ever crystallized in literary form; in parts of the Hovamol, a collection of wise counsels that can bear comparison with most of the Biblical Book of Proverbs; in the Lokasenna, a comedy none the less full of vivid characterization because its humor is often broad; and in the Thrymskvitha, one of the finest ballads in the world. The hero poems give us, in its oldest and most vivid extant form, the story of Sigurth, Brynhild, and Atli, the Norse parallel to the GermanNibelungenlied. The Poetic Edda is not only of great interest to the student of antiquity; it is a collection including some of the most remark able poems which have been preserved to us from the period before the pen and the printing-press. replaced the poet-singer and oral tradition. It is above all else the desire to make better known the dramatic force, the vivid and often tremendous imagery, and the superb conceptions embodied in these poems which has called forth the present translation.