Poems of the Elder Edda
Anon.
Translated by Patricia Terry with an Introduction by Charles W. Dunn.
The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the "Poetic Edda". The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the "Codex Regius".
The poems are primarily lyrical rather than narrative. Terry's readable translation includes the magnificent cosmological poem Völuspá ("The Sibyl's Prophecy"), didactic poems concerned with mythology and the everyday conduct of life, and heroic poems, of which an important group is concerned with the story of Sigurd and Brynhild.
Patricia Terry has taught literature at the University of California, San Diego, and at Barnard College.
The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the "Poetic Edda". The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the "Codex Regius".
The poems are primarily lyrical rather than narrative. Terry's readable translation includes the magnificent cosmological poem Völuspá ("The Sibyl's Prophecy"), didactic poems concerned with mythology and the everyday conduct of life, and heroic poems, of which an important group is concerned with the story of Sigurd and Brynhild.
Patricia Terry has taught literature at the University of California, San Diego, and at Barnard College.
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Year:
1990
Edition:
Revised
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
0812282205
ISBN 13:
9780812282207
Series:
The Middle Ages Series
File:
PDF, 9.42 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1990
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