The Poetic Eddas: The Mythological Poems - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0486437108 ISBN 13: 9780486437101

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2004

Riassunto

The vibrant Old Norse poems in this collection, which may have been brought together as early as the thirteenth century, authentically capture the ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen. In addition, their images of a mythical world profoundly influenced latter-day storytellers as Richard Wagner and J. R. R. Tolkien.
Known as the "Lays of the Gods," these mythological poems include the Voluspo, one of the broadest conceptions of the world's creation and ultimate destruction ever crystallized in literary form; the Hovamol, a compilation of sagacious counsels reminiscent of the biblical book of Proverbs; the Lokasenna, a comedy bursting with vivid characterizations; and the Thrymskvitha, a ballad of enduring loveliness.
The Poetic Edda is not only of the highest interest to students of antiquity; in the exceptionally detailed and complete translations included here, it offers lovers of poetry and myth some of the most remarkable surviving specimens from a distant age of poet-singers and oral traditions.

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Book by Bellows Henry Adams

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0486437108
• ISBN 13: 9780486437101
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 251
• Redattore: Bellows Henry Adams