These tales from the pagan era have proved to be among the most influential of all myths and legends, inspiring modern works as diverse as Wagner's Ring Cycle and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. This unabridged edition includes introduction, notes and an extensive list of alternative names. Snorri Sturluson was a master storyteller, and this translation in modern idiom of the inimitable tales of the gods and heroes of the Scandinavian peoples brings them to life again.
These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian The Prose Edda was the work of Snorri Sturluson who planned it as a textbook for writers of skaldic poetry, prefaced by a section on the Norse cosmogony, pantheon and myths.
This collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry contains the greater narratives of the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods. The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves and elves struggle for survival.
It also preserves the oral memory of heroes, warrior kings and queens. In clear prose interspersed with powerful verse, the Edda provides unparalleled insight into the gods' tragic realization that the future holds one final cataclysmic battle, Ragnarok, when the world will be destroyed.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. The Prose Edda, ranking with the world's great mythologies, contains the most extensive account of the Norse universe, from its creation to its destruction.
It also preserves the oral memory of heroes, warrior kings and queens. In clear prose interspersed with powerful verse, the Edda provides unparalleled insight into the gods' tragic realization that the future holds one final cataclysmic battle, Ragnarok, when the world will be destroyed. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. This unabridged edition includes introduction, notes and an extensive list of alternative names Author : Snorri Sturluson Publisher: ISBN: Category: Fiction Page: View: Read Now » The Prose Edda, ranking with the world's great mythologies, contains the most extensive account of the Norse universe, from its creation to its destruction.
This unabridged edition includes introduction, notes and an extensive list of alternative names Author : Snorri Sturluson Publisher: ISBN: Category: Social Science Page: View: Read Now » The Prose Edda, ranking with the world's great mythologies, contains the most extensive account of the Norse universe, from its creation to its destruction.
It was designed as a handbook for poets to compose in the style of the skalds of the Viking ages. It is an exposition of the rule of poetic diction with many examples, applications, and retellings of myths and legends. Snorri Sturluson feared that the traditional techniques of Norse poetics, the pagan kennings, and the allusions to mythology would be forgotten with the introduction of new verse forms from Europe.
Here it is at last Odin be praised! These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc.
Jackson Crawford's modern versions of these poems are authoritative and fluent and often very gripping. With their individual headnotes and complementary general introduction, they supply today's readers with most of what they need to know in order to understand and appreciate the beliefs, motivations, and values of the Vikings.
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