Prose Edda Tales from Norse Mythology

Name: Prose Edda Tales from Norse Mythology
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ISBN: 9780520273054

ISBN-10: 0520273052

ISBN-13: 9780520273054

Edition: 3rd 2012

Authors: Snorri Sturluson, Jean I. Young

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Prose Eddais a work without predecessor or parallel. It was designed as a handbook for poets to compose in the style of the skalds of the Viking ages. It is an exposition of the rule of poetic diction with many examples, applications, and retellings of myths and legends.Snorri Sturluson feared that the traditional techniques of Norse poetics, the pagan kennings, and the allusions to mythology would be forgotten with the introduction of new verse forms from Europe.The present selection includes the whole ofGylfaginning(The deluding of Gylfi)--a guide to mythology that forms one of the great storybooks of the Middle Ages--and the longer heroic tales and legends ofSkáldskaparmál(Poetic…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 134
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English