The Poetic Edda
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The Poetic Edda

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The Poetic Edda

About this book

"This is a wonderful new edition of the Poetic Edda. It captures the language, vitality, and rhythms of the original."—Jesse Byock, PhD, UCLA

Gods, giants, the undead, dwarves, Valkyries, heroes, kidnapping, dragons, and a giant wolf are just some of the stars in these Norse tales. Committed to vellum in Iceland around 1270, The Poetic Edda has compelled the likes of Richard Wagner, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jorges Luis Borges, and W.H. Auden. Jeramy Dodds transmits the Old Icelandic text into English without chipping the patina of the original.

Jeramy Dodds's Crabwise to the Hounds was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won the Trillium Book Award for poetry.

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Information

Publisher
Coach House Books
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781552452967
eBook ISBN
9781770563858
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature
AN ANNOTATED INDEX OF NAMES
Page numbers refer to print edition.
Ægir, Sea Jotun/sea god: 74, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 107, 129
Æsir, the main pantheon of gods: 14, 15, 18, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 54, 56, 62, 64, 65, 68, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77, 78, 81, 86, 90, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 105, 107, 108, 109, 120, 121, 123, 163, 164, 171, 177, 180, 221, 246, 248, 259
Æsir referred to as:
Slaughter Gods: 34
Triumph Gods: 31, 32, 74, 96, 172
Powers: 31, 45, 54, 58, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 102, 120, 122, 123, 180, 214
Agnar (1), brother of Geirrod: 67
Agnar (2), son of Geirrod: 67, 68, 75
Agnar (3), opponent of Helmet-Gunnar: 178
Ai, a Dwarf: 27
Ailed Eye, a name for Odin: 74
Alf (1), a Dwarf: 28
Alf (2), son of Hunding: 127, 145
Alf (3), son of Hrodmar: 141
Alf (4), son of Hjalprek: 153
Alf the Old (1), son of Hring and Hogni: 133
Alf the Old (2), son of Ulf: 256, 257
Alfheim, ‘Elf Home,’ one of the nine worlds, home to the Light Elves: 13
Alfhild...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Epigraph
  5. CONTENTS
  6. FOREWORD
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION
  9. MYTHOLOGICAL POEMS
  10. the volva’s prophecy
  11. the high one’s sayings
  12. vafthrudnir’s sayings
  13. grimnir’s sayings
  14. skirnir’s journey
  15. harbard’s poem
  16. hymir’s lay
  17. loki’s flyting
  18. thrym’s lay
  19. volund’s lay
  20. alvis’s sayings
  21. HEROIC POEMS
  22. the first lay of helgi hundingsbani
  23. helgi hjorvardsson’s lay
  24. the second lay of helgi hundingsbani
  25. of sinfjotli’s death
  26. gripir’s prophecy
  27. regin’s lay
  28. fafnir’s lay
  29. sigrdrifa’s lay
  30. fragment of sigurd’s lay
  31. the first lay of gudrun
  32. sigurd’s short lay
  33. brynhild’s hel ride
  34. the slaying of the niflungs
  35. the second lay of gudrun
  36. the third lay of gudrun
  37. oddrun’s dirge
  38. atli’s lay
  39. atli’s greenlandic lay
  40. gudrun’s whetting
  41. hamdir’s lay
  42. POEMS NOT IN THE CODEX REGIUS
  43. baldr’s dreams
  44. rig’s list
  45. hyndla’s poem
  46. grotti’s song
  47. an annotated index of names
  48. about the translator
  49. acknowledgments
  50. Copyright Notice

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