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Edda : a collection of essays / edited by Robert J. Glendinning and Haraldur Bessason.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- University of Manitoba Icelandic studies ; 4
- University of Manitoba Icelandic studies, 0709-2997 ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eddas--Addresses, essays, lectures.
- Eddas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- [Winnipeg, Man.] : University of Manitoba Press, 1985, c1983.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Twelve essays are presented by outstanding authorities in Nordic medieval studies and range from treatment of broad aspects of the Edda, to consideration of single poems, to analysis of parts of specific works. An attactive and important collection for every scholar of Old Scandinavian.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Editors' Foreword
- The Edda as Ritual: Odin and His Masks
- Insults and Riddles in the Edda Poems
- Elements of Imagery in the Edda
- Some Thoughts on Völuspá
- On the Composition of Vǫlospá
- Types of Eddie Mythological Poetry
- The River Names in Grímnismá 27-29
- The Revenge of Vǫlundr
- Eddie Poetry as Oral Poetry: The Evidence of Parallel Passages in the Helgi Poems for Questions of Composition and Performance
- Did the Poet of Atlamál Know Atlaqviða?
- Guðrúnarqviða forna. A Reconstruction and Interpretation
- Pagan Sympathy: Attitudes to Heathendom in the Prologue to Snorra Edda
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- "Reprinted 1985"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613090706
- 9781283090704
- 1283090708
- 9780887553196
- 0887553192
- OCLC:
- 1412009410
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