Poems of the Elder Edda

Name: Poems of the Elder Edda
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ISBN: 9780812282207

ISBN-10: 0812282205

ISBN-13: 9780812282207

Edition: 1990 (Revised)

Authors: Patricia Terry, Charles W. Dunn, Ruth Mazo Karras

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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 Grennland 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 Vlusp ("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…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 4/1/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English