The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems

Henry Adams Bellows

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9780486139050
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

The vibrant Old Norse poems in this collection, which may have been brought together as early as the thirteenth century, authentically capture the ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen. In addition, their images of a mythical world profoundly influenced latter-day storytellers as Richard Wagner and J. R. R. Tolkien.
Known as the "Lays of the Gods," these mythological poems include the Voluspo, one of the broadest conceptions of the world's creation and ultimate destruction ever crystallized in literary form; the Hovamol, a compilation of sagacious counsels reminiscent of the biblical book of Proverbs; the Lokasenna, a comedy bursting with vivid characterizations; and the Thrymskvitha, a ballad of enduring loveliness.
The Poetic Edda is not only of the highest interest to students of antiquity; in the exceptionally detailed and complete translations included here, it offers lovers of poetry and myth some of the most remarkable surviving specimens from a distant age of poet-singers and oral traditions.

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• NOTE TO THE DOVER EDITION
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
• GENERAL INTRODUCTION
• VOLUSPO - The Wise-Woman’s Prophecy
• HOVAMOL - The Ballad of the High One
• VAFTHRUTHNISMOL - The Ballad of Vafthruthnir
• GRIMNISMOL - The Ballad of Grimnir
• SKIRNISMOL - The Ballad of Skirnir
• HARBARTHSLJOTH - The Poem of Harbarth
• HYMISKVITHA - The Lay of Hymir
• LOKASENNA - Loki’s Wrangling
• THRYMSKVITHA - The Lay of Thrym
• ALVISSMOL - The Ballad of Alvis
• BALDRS DRAUMAR - Baldr’s Dreams
• RIGSTHULA - The Song of Rig
• HYNDLULJOTH - The Poem of Hyndla
• SVIPDAGSMOL - The Ballad of Svipdag,
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