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The Poetic Edda

By Ursula Dronke, Ursula Dronke

The Poetic Edda

By Ursula Dronke, Ursula Dronke

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
460
Release Date:
1997-12-04
Publication Date:
1997-05-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198111819
ISBN13:
9780198111818
Weight:
892 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
31 cm
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