The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex Regius.
The poems are primarily lyrical rather than narrative. Terry’s readable translation includes the magnificent cosmological poem Völuspá (‘The Sibyl’s Prophecy’), didactic poems concerned with mythology and the everyday conduct of life, and heroic poems, of which an important group is concerned with the story of Sigurd and Brynhild.
Poems of the Elder Edda will appeal to students of Old Norse, Icelandic, and Medieval literature, as well as to general readers of poetry.
Poems of the Elder Edda
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 304 ● ISBN 9780812291599 ● File size 2.2 MB ● Translator Patricia Terry ● Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. ● City Philadelphia ● Country US ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6500561 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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