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The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems

The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Henry Adams Bellows (Translator)Publish date:2004-07-19Pages:251
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dover PublicationsISBN-13:9780486437101ISBN-10:486437108UPC:9780486437101Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:GermanSize:8.20 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC0VN4ZCFW
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dover PublicationsISBN-13:9780486437101ISBN-10:486437108UPC:9780486437101Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:GermanSize:8.20 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC0VN4ZCFW
Publisher: Dover Publications

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