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The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems

The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems

By: Henry Adams Bellows

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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.

Reprint of The Poetic Edda: Lays of the Gods, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, 1923.
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ISBN 100486437108
ISBN 139780486437101
Author/EditorHenry Adams Bellows
Page Count288
Dimensions5 1/2 x 8 1/2

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