Icelandic Poetry, Or The Edda of Saemund - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Icelandic Poetry, Or The Edda of Saemund write by . This book was released on 1797. Icelandic Poetry, Or The Edda of Saemund available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Poetic Edda
The Poetic Edda - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poetic Edda write by . This book was released on 2010-03-01. The Poetic Edda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early Christian times. Collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, The Poetic Edda was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars. Even then its value as poetry, as a source of historical information, and as a collection of entertaining stories was recognized. This meticulous translation succeeds in reproducing the verse patterns, the rhythm, the mood, and the dignity of the original in a revision that Scandinavian Studies says "may well grace anyone's bookshelf."
The Poetic Edda
The Poetic Edda - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poetic Edda write by Paul Acker. This book was released on 2002-02-08. The Poetic Edda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of the major poems, this book yields a variety of powerful and convincing readings. Contributors to the collection are both young scholars and senior figures in the discipline, and are of varying nationalities (American, British, Australian, Scandinavian, and Icelandic), thus ensuring a range of interpretations from different corners of the scholarly community. The new translations included here make available for the first time to English speaking students the intriguing methodologies that are currently developing in Scandinavia. An essential collection of scholarship for any Old Norse course, The Poetic Edda will also be of interest to scholars of Indo-European myth, as well as those who study the theory of myth.
The Saga of the Volsungs
The Saga of the Volsungs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Saga of the Volsungs write by . This book was released on 2017-07-31. The Saga of the Volsungs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members—including, among others, the dragon-slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.
The Wanderer's Havamal
The Wanderer's Havamal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wanderer's Havamal write by . This book was released on 2019-11-15. The Wanderer's Havamal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Wanderer's Hávamál features Jackson Crawford’s complete, carefully revised English translation of the Old Norse poem Hávamál, newly annotated for this volume, together with facing original Old Norse text sourced directly from the Codex Regius manuscript. Rounding out the volume are Crawford’s classic Cowboy Hávamál and translations of other related texts central to understanding the character, wisdom, and mysteries of Óðinn (Odin). Portable and reader-friendly, it makes an ideal companion for both lovers of Old Norse mythology and those new to the wisdom of this central Eddic poem wherever they may find themselves.
