The Poetic Eddas: The Mythological Poems (Dover Literature: Poetry) - Softcover

 
9780486437101: The Poetic Eddas: The Mythological Poems (Dover Literature: Poetry)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0486437108 ISBN 13: 9780486437101
Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Verlag
Dover Publications Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0486437108
ISBN 13 
9780486437101
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
251
Herausgeber
Bellows Henry Adams
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