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The Poetic Edda : The Heroic Poems
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Author/Editor: Henry Adams Bellows
ISBN 10:0486460215
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Passed down long ago from poet to poet and singer to singer in the great oral tradition of Scandinavia, this collection of heroic sagas explores a mythical world. Incorporating legends of Norse gods and heroes, great fires and floods, superhuman warriors and doomed lovers, these dramatic poems weave ...  read more
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Passed down long ago from poet to poet and singer to singer in the great oral tradition of Scandinavia, this collection of heroic sagas explores a mythical world. Incorporating legends of Norse gods and heroes, great fires and floods, superhuman warriors and doomed lovers, these dramatic poems weave vivid portraits of powerful characters caught up in passion, ambition, and destiny. Filled with gripping conceptions of the world's creation and ultimate destruction, the verses chronicle the triumphs and tragedies of a lost mythological past, where words of wisdom and beauty echoed off the steel of waving swords.
The hero poems of The Poetic Edda are literary monuments that have inspired such luminaries as Richard Wagner and J. R. R. Tolkien. This Dover edition, which includes exceptionally detailed and complete translations by Henry Adams Bellows, will continue to enchant new generations of readers. It is a companion to The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems, also available from Dover Publications.
Section entitled "Lays of the Heroes" excerpted from The Poetic Edda,
The American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, 1923.
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Product Details:

ISBN 10: 0486460215
ISBN 13: 9780486460215
Author/Editor: Henry Adams Bellows
Format: Book
Page Count: 336
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
Publication date: July 2007
Table of Contents: Click here to view the Table of Contents

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