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Description:This volume presents a wholly new edition of five of the most brilliant and celebrated poems of the Poetic Edda: 'The Sibyl's Prophecy', 'The Rigmarole of Rigr', 'Wayland's Poem', 'Skirnir's Lay', and 'Loki's Quarrel'. New textual readings and interpretations are established. New light is shed on the Franks Casket and on King Alfred's interest in Wayland; new links are found between the Viking and Christian worlds. A close translation accompanies the text to give the non-specialist reader a transparent and rhythmic sense of the original. For each poem the sequence of ideas is traced in the introduction and the interpretation substantiated by a detailed commentary. Much consideration is given to the themes of the poems and the ancient ideas in which they are rooted: analogues come from many sources - Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Sanskrit, African, and Finnish. The excellence and variety of the poems give a rare insight into the genius of oral poets of the Viking age.Readership: Students and scholars of Old Norse and Old English literature; early medieval history and medieval German literature; Anglo-Saxon and Viking historians and archaeologists; and comparativists in mythology and religion.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Poetic Edda Volume II Mythological Poems Edited and translated with introduction and commentary by The late Ursula Dronke. To get started finding The Poetic Edda Volume II Mythological Poems Edited and translated with introduction and commentary by The late Ursula Dronke, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 458

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Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press

Release: 1997

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Description: This volume presents a wholly new edition of five of the most brilliant and celebrated poems of the Poetic Edda: 'The Sibyl's Prophecy', 'The Rigmarole of Rigr', 'Wayland's Poem', 'Skirnir's Lay', and 'Loki's Quarrel'. New textual readings and interpretations are established. New light is shed on the Franks Casket and on King Alfred's interest in Wayland; new links are found between the Viking and Christian worlds. A close translation accompanies the text to give the non-specialist reader a transparent and rhythmic sense of the original. For each poem the sequence of ideas is traced in the introduction and the interpretation substantiated by a detailed commentary. Much consideration is given to the themes of the poems and the ancient ideas in which they are rooted: analogues come from many sources - Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Sanskrit, African, and Finnish. The excellence and variety of the poems give a rare insight into the genius of oral poets of the Viking age.Readership: Students and scholars of Old Norse and Old English literature; early medieval history and medieval German literature; Anglo-Saxon and Viking historians and archaeologists; and comparativists in mythology and religion.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Poetic Edda Volume II Mythological Poems Edited and translated with introduction and commentary by The late Ursula Dronke. To get started finding The Poetic Edda Volume II Mythological Poems Edited and translated with introduction and commentary by The late Ursula Dronke, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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