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A Handbook to Eddic Poetry

Author : Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316720853
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook to Eddic Poetry written by Carolyne Larrington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. Dramatically recreating the voices of the legendary past, eddic poems distil moments of high emotion as human heroes and supernatural beings alike grapple with betrayal, loyalty, mortality and love. These poems relate the most famous deeds of gods such as Óðinn and Þórr with their adversaries the giants; they bring to life the often fraught interactions between kings, queens and heroes as well as their encounters with valkyries, elves, dragons and dwarfs. Written by leading international scholars, the chapters in this volume showcase the poetic riches of the eddic corpus, and reveal its relevance to the history of poetics, gender studies, pre-Christian religions, art history and archaeology.

The Poetic Edda

Author : Henry Adams Bellows
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140601
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Poetic Edda written by Henry Adams Bellows and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vibrant compilation presents the heroic sagas of ancient Scandinavia. Its timeless legends of superhuman warriors and doomed lovers have inspired Wagner's "Ring Cycle" and Tolkien's "Middle-earth."

The Poetic Edda

Author : Edward Pettit
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800647751
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Poetic Edda written by Edward Pettit and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda. Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known as the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda. The poems cover diverse subjects, including the creation, destruction and rebirth of the world, the dealings of gods such as Óðinn, Þórr and Loki with giants and each other, and the more intimate, personal tragedies of the hero Sigurðr, his wife Guðrún and the valkyrie Brynhildr. Each poem is provided with an introduction, synopsis and suggestions for further reading. The Old Norse texts are furnished with a textual apparatus recording the manuscript readings behind this edition’s emendations, as well as select variant readings. The accompanying translations, informed by the latest scholarship, are concisely annotated to make them as accessible as possible. As the first open-access, single-volume parallel Old Norse edition and English translation of the Poetic Edda, this book will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars of Old Norse literature. It will also interest those researching other fields of medieval literature (especially Old English and Middle High German), and appeal to a wider general audience drawn to the myths and legends of the Viking Age and subsequent centuries.

Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda

Author : Christopher D. Sapp
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902725771X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda written by Christopher D. Sapp and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda , perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age. This study compares the anonymous Eddic poems to dated skaldic poems with respect to five phenomena that develop diachronically in early Old Norse: the expletive particle of, types of negation, word order, types of relative clause, and metrical criteria. After examining these dating features individually, the three most reliable criteria—the particle of, negation, and relative clause type—are combined into a multifactorial analysis using a Naïve Bayes Classifier. The classifier assigns a date to each Eddic poem, and these proposed dates have interesting implications for our understanding of these texts as sources for the medieval history, mythology, linguistics, and literature of the Germanic peoples. This book will have broad interdisciplinary interest, not just to historical linguists and philologists but also to scholars of Norse history, literature, and mythology.

The Poetic Edda

Author :
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292792549
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Poetic Edda written by and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Henry Adams Bellows
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Poetic Edda written by Henry Adams Bellows and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetic Edda is the modern name for an untitled collection of Old Norse anonymous narrative poems in alliterative verse. It is distinct from the closely related Prose Edda, although both works are seminal to the study of Old Norse poetry. Several versions of the Poetic Edda exist: especially notable is the medieval Icelandic manuscript Codex Regius, which contains 31 poems.

The Home of the Eddic Poems

Author : Sophus Bugge
Publisher : London, D. Nutt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Home of the Eddic Poems written by Sophus Bugge and published by London, D. Nutt. This book was released on 1899 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays on Eddic Poetry

Author : John McKinnel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442615885
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Eddic Poetry written by John McKinnel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Eddic Poetry presents a selection of important articles on Old Norse literature by noted medievalist John McKinnell. While McKinnell's work addresses many of the perennial issues in the study of Old Norse, this collection has a special focus on the interplay between heathen and Christian world-views in the poems. Among the texts examined are Hávamál, which includes an elegantly cynical poem about Óðinn's sexual intrigues and a more mystical one about his self-sacrifice on the world-tree in order to gain magical wisdom; V?lundarkviða, which recounts an elvish smith's revenge for his captivity and maiming; and Hervararkviða, where the heroine bravely but foolishly raises her dead father to demand the deadly sword Tyrfingr from him. Originally published between 1988 and 2008, these twelve essays cover a wide range of mythological and heroic poems and have been revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship.

Eddic poems

Author : Guðbrandur Vigfússon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Eddic poems written by Guðbrandur Vigfússon and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Revisiting the Poetic Edda

Author : Paul Acker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136227865
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting the Poetic Edda written by Paul Acker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigurðr; Brynhildr the implacable shield-maiden; tragic Guðrún and her children; Attila the Hun (from a Norse perspective!); and greedy King Fróði, whose name lives on in Tolkien’s Frodo. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the poems for students, taking a number of fresh, theoretically-sophisticated and productive approaches to the poetry and its characters. Contributors bring to bear insights generated by comparative study, speech act and feminist theory, queer theory and psychoanalytic theory (among others) to raise new, probing questions about the heroic poetry and its reception. Each essay is accompanied by up-to-date lists of further reading and a contextualisation of the poems or texts discussed in critical history. Drawing on the latest international studies of the poems in their manuscript context, and written by experts in their individual fields, engaging with the texts in their original language and context, but presented with full translations, this companion volume to The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology (Routledge, 2002) is accessible to students and illuminating for experts. Essays also examine the afterlife of the heroic poems in Norse legendary saga, late medieval Icelandic poetry, the nineteenth-century operas of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, and the recently published (posthumous) poem by Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.

Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry

Author : Brittany Erin Schorn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110549794
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry written by Brittany Erin Schorn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either as a primarily philological commentary or has addressed literary and thematic topics of individual or small groups of poems. This book offers a wide-ranging enquiry into the defining features of Old Norse wisdom, including the representation of wisdom in texts which cross traditional generic boundaries. It builds on recent advances in understanding of pre-Christian religion in Scandinavia, and calls on comparative and supporting work from several different disciplinary backgrounds (including literary theory, other medieval literatures and anthropology). Speaker and Authority interrogates important questions about the concept of knowledge, as well as its role in medieval Scandinavian society and its broader European cultural context.

The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486139050
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems written by and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen live on in these translations known as the "Lays of the Gods." This 13th-century collection recaptures a mythical world that influenced Tolkien and other storytellers.

The Home of the Eddic Poems

Author : Sophus Bugge
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528384506
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book The Home of the Eddic Poems written by Sophus Bugge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Home of the Eddic Poems: With Especial Reference to the Helgi-Lays I may add that I have employed 'old Norse' with the meaning norwegian-icelandic.' The adjectives 'norse' and 'norwegian' are indifferently applied to the inhabitants of Norway in early times. Northern frequently replaces Scandinavian.' I make no apology for using the noun motive (norwegian motif}, German motif) in the sense of feature, incident, episode.' This word has been used for a number of years in English works dealing with questions of literary history, and is so convenient that it may well be adopted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Corpus poeticum boreale: Eddic poetry

Author : Guðbrandur Vigfússon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Corpus poeticum boreale: Eddic poetry written by Guðbrandur Vigfússon and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

Author : Medieval Academy of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802038234
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Old Norse-Icelandic Literature written by Medieval Academy of America and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the past few decades, interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a corresponding interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Until the 1980s, however, there was a distinct lack of scholarship in English that synthesized the critical trends and thinking in the field, so in 1985 Carol J. Clover and John Lindow brought together several of the most distinguished Old Norse scholars to contribute essays for a collection that would finally provide a comprehensive guide to the major genres of Old Norse-Icelandic literature." "The contributors summarize and comment on scholarly work in the major branches of the field: eddic and skaldic poetry, family and kings' sagas, courtly writing, and mythology. Their essays, each with a full bibliography, make up this vital survey of Old Norse literature in English - a basic reference work that has stimulated much research and helped to open up the field to a wider academic readership." "This volume has become an essential text for instructors, and now, twenty years after its first appearance, it is being republished as part of the Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (MART) series with a new preface that discusses more recent contributions to the field."

The Poetic Edda

Author : Unnamed
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537629988
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Poetic Edda written by Unnamed and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetic Edda - An Unnamed Collection of Old Norse Anonymous Poems - Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes By Henry Adams Bellows THERE is scarcely any literary work of great importance which has been less readily available for the general reader, or even for the serious student of literature, than the Poetic Edda. Translations have been far from numerous, and only in Germany has the complete work of translation been done in the full light of recent scholarship. In English the only versions were long the conspicuously inadequate one made by Thorpe, and published about half a century ago, and the unsatisfactory prose translations in Vigfusson and Powell's Corpus Poeticum Boreale, reprinted in the Norr na collection. An excellent translation of the poems dealing with the gods, in verse and with critical and explanatory notes, made by Olive Bray, was, however, published by the Viking Club of London in 1908. In French there exist only partial translations, chief among them being those made by Bergmann many years ago. Among the seven or eight German versions, those by the Brothers Grimm and by Karl Simrock, which had considerable historical importance because of their influence on nineteenth century German literature and art, and particularly on the work of Richard Wagner, have been largely superseded by Hugo Gering's admirable translation, published in 1892, and by the recent two volume rendering by Genzmer, with excellent notes by Andreas Heusler, 194-1920. At the beginning of the collection in the Codex Regius stands the Voluspo, the most famous and important, as it is likewise the most debated, of all the Eddic poems. Another version of it is found in a huge miscellaneous compilation of about the year 1300, the Hauksbok, and many stanzas are included in the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson. The order of the stanzas in the Hauksbok version differs materially from that in the Codex Regius, and in the published editions many experiments have been attempted in further rearrangements. On the whole, how ever, and allowing for certain interpolations, the order of the stanzas in the Codex Regius seems more logical than any of the wholesale "improvements" which have been undertaken."

Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives

Author : Anders Andrén
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9185509833
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives written by Anders Andrén and published by Nordic Academic Press. This book was released on 2006-01-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of more than 70 papers written by scholars concerned with pre-Christian Norse religion, the articles discuss subjects such as archaeology, art history, historical archaeology, history, history of ideas, theological history, literature, onomastics, Scandinavian languages, and Scandinavian studies. The interdisciplinary aim of the book brings together text-based and material-based researchers to improve scholarly exchange and dialogue and provide a variety of contributions that elucidate topics such as worldview and cosmology, ritual and religious practice, myth and memory, as well as reception and present-day use of old Norse religion.