The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection)
The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection)
Hardcover – July 1, 2019
Price
$24.95
Format
Hardcover
Pages
384
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
Reissue edition (July 1, 2019
ISBN-13
978-0198834571
Dimensions
8.6 x 1.3 x 5.4 inches
Weight
1.1 pounds
Description
"This is a lovingly presented translation of one of the most important works of Norse mythology ... A fabulous collection worthy of multiple readings." -- Arthur Chappell, Concatenation.org Carolyne Larrington has published widely on Old Norse myth, legends, and literature, inlcuding co-editing two volumes of essays on eddic poetry wiht Paul Acker. Her books include King Arthur's Enchantresses: Morgan and Her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition (IB Tauris, 2006), Magical Tales: Myth, Legend, and Enchantment in Children's Books (with Diane Purkiss, Bodleian Library, 2013), and The Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes (Thames and Hudson, 2017).
Features & Highlights
- "She sees, coming up a second time,
- earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,over the mountain hunting fish."After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The
- Poetic Edda
- begins with
- The Seeress's Prophecy
- which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, the exploits of gods and humans are related. The one-eyed Odin, red-bearded Thor, Loki the trickster, the lovely goddesses, and the giants who are their enemies walk beside the heroic Helgi, Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer, Brynhild the shield-maiden, and the implacable Gudrun. This translation also features the quest-poem
- The Lay of Svipdag
- and
- The Waking
- of Angantyr
- , in which a girl faces down her dead father to retrieve his sword.Comic, tragic, instructive, grandiose, witty, and profound, the poems of the
- Edda
- have influenced artists from Wagner to Tolkien and speak to us as freely as when they were first written down seven hundred and fifty years ago.
