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The Essence of Viking Mythology: Norse Eddas, Sagas & Ballads
The Essence of Viking Mythology: Norse Eddas, Sagas & Ballads' is a seminal collection that delves deep into the heart of Norse literary tradition, presenting a rich tapestry of myths, epics, and ballads. The anthology artfully navigates through the complex web of ancient Scandinavian culture, showcasing the diversity of literary styles from the poetic eddas and grandiose sagas to enchanting ballads. Its carefully curated selection highlights the overarching themes of valor, destiny, and the inexorable intertwine of gods and mortals, offering readers an unparalleled insight into Viking mythology. Standout pieces capture the imagination with tales of heroism, exploration, and the profound wis...
Mnemonic Echoing in Old Norse Sagas and Eddas
This book brings together Old Norse-Icelandic literature and critical strategies of memory, and argues that some of the particularities of this vernacular textual tradition are explained by the fact that this literature derives from, represents, and incorporates into its designs mnemonic devices of different kinds. Even if Old Norse-Icelandic manuscript culture is relatively silent about the mnemonic context of the literature, the texts themselves exhibit multiple reminiscences of memory. By showing that this literature reveals glimpses of mnemonic technologies at the same time as it testifies to a cultural memory, this study demonstrates how ‘the past’, and narrative traditions about th...
The Elder Edda
POETRY ANTHOLOGIES: CLASSICAL, EARLY & MEDIEVAL. "The Elder Edda" contains the poems that Snorri quotes in his "Prose Edda" - poems that predate the Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. The poems detail Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends - brought to life in a new translation by Andrew Orchard.
Eddas and Sagas
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The Elder Eddas, and the Younger Eddas (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Saemund Sigfusson lived in Iceland. He was credited with The Elder Eddas which is a collection of poems. The poems themselves date in all probability from the Tenth and Eleventh centuries, and are many of them only fragments of longer heroic chants now otherwise entirely lost. It is evident that they were collected from oral tradition; and the fact that the same story is occasionally repeated, in varied form, and that some of the poems prove that the present collection is only a gathering made early in the middle ages, long after the composition of the pieces, and in no critical spirit. Snorre Sturleson, was the writer of Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, which is an Icelandic manual of poetics which contains many stories from Norse mythology. Its purpose was to enable Icelandic poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, and to grasp the meaning behind the many kennings that were used in skaldic poetry. It consists of seven manuscripts, dating from around 1300 to around 1600, which have independent textual value.
The Elder Eddas, and The Younger Eddas (Esprios Classics)
The Poetic Edda is the modern name for an untitled collection of Old Norse anonymous poems, which is distinct from the Prose Edda written by Snorri Sturluson. Several versions exist, all primarily of text from the Icelandic medieval manuscript known as the Codex Regius, which contains 31 poems. The Codex Regius is arguably the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends. The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda (Icelandic: Snorra Edda) or, historically, simply as Edda, is an Old Norse textbook written in Iceland during the early 13th century. The work is often assumed to have been to some extent written, or at least compiled, by the Icelandic scholar, lawspeaker, and historian Snorri Sturluson c. 1220.
Echoes of Valhalla
Tolkien’s wizard Gandalf, Wagner’s Valkyrie Brünnhilde, Marvel’s superhero the Mighty Thor, the warrior heading for Valhalla in Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” and Donald Crisp’s portrayal of Leif Eriksson in the classic film The Viking—these are just a few examples of how Icelandic medieval literature has shaped human imagination during the past 150 years. Echoes of Valhalla is a unique look at modern adaptations of the Icelandic eddas (poems of Norse mythology) and sagas (ancient prose accounts of Viking history, voyages, and battles) across an astonishing breadth of art forms. Jón Karl Helgason looks at comic books, plays, travel books, music, and films in order to expl...
