Poems of the Elder Edda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dunn, Charles W.

Terry, Patricia

Series:

Middle Ages series.

The Middle Ages Series

Standardized Title:

Edda Sæmundar. English

Language:

English

Germanic (Other)

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages--Poetry.

Middle Ages.

Eddas--Translations into English.

Eddas.

Old Norse poetry--Translations into English.

Old Norse poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages).

Edition:

Revised Edition

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex Regius.The poems are primarily lyrical rather than narrative. Terry's readable translation includes the magnificent cosmological poem Völuspá ("The Sibyl's Prophecy"), didactic poems concerned with mythology and the everyday conduct of life, and heroic poems, of which an important group is concerned with the story of Sigurd and Brynhild.Poems of the Elder Edda will appeal to students of Old Norse, Icelandic, and Medieval literature, as well as to general readers of poetry.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition

Preface to the 1969 Edition

Introduction

Völuspá

Sayings of the High One

The Lay of Vafthrudnir

The Lay of Grimnir

Skirnir's Journey

The Lay of Harbard

The Lay of Hymir

The Insolence of Loki

The Lay of Thrym

The Lay of Alvis

The Lay of Volund

The Lay of Helgi Hjorvard's Son

The First Lay of Helgi Hunding's Bane

The Second Lay of Helgi Hunding's Bane

The Prophecy of Gripir

The Lay of Regin

The Lay of Fafnir

The Lay of Sigrdrifa

Fragment of a Sigurd Lay

The Grief of Gudrun

The Short Lay of Sigurd

Brynhild's Journey to Hel

The Second Lay of Gudrun

The Third Lay of Gudrun

Oddrun's Lament O

The Lay of Atli

The Greenland Lay of Atli

Gudrun's Chain of Woes

The Lay of Hamdir

Balder's Dreams

The Mill Song

The Waking of Angantyr

Glossary and Index of Proper Names

Bibliography of Works Cited 269

Notes:

Translation of: Edda Saemundar.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780812291599

081229159X

OCLC:

643763034