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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.
Poems of the Elder Edda will appeal to students of Old Norse, Icelandic, and Medieval literature, as well as to general readers of poetry.

Poems of the Elder Edda

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    A Paperback / softback by Patricia Terry, Charles W. Dunn

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/1990
      ISBN13: 9780812282207, 978-0812282207
      ISBN10: 0812282205

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.
      Poems of the Elder Edda will appeal to students of Old Norse, Icelandic, and Medieval literature, as well as to general readers of poetry.

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