The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse MythologyCourier Corporation, 7 бер. 2012 р. - 288 стор. Gods and giants bestride these ancient tales, in which warrior queens and noble heroes battle with elves, dwarves, and fearsome monsters. Spanning the dawn of the world's creation to its fiery destruction, these gripping Norse legends chronicle the triumphs and tragedies of a lost era. Resounding with a poetic instinct for the picturesque, the dramatic, and the human, they form vivid portraits of the characters' personalities. They also depict the comic and disastrous results of ambition, passion, and destiny. The wellspring of modern knowledge of Norse mythology, these sagas preserved the Vikings' narrative style from an invading European influence. Iceland's great literary genius, Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241), combined oral traditions, genealogical records, and old songs to immortalize his country's glorious past. Edda means "poetic art," and Sturluson's guidebook for Icelandic poets has been a timeless inspiration for generations of writers around the world, including Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien. |
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... held to be true: that if he swayed the chief things of creation, he must have been before the stars of heaven; and they saw that if he ruled the courses of the heavenly bodies, he must also govern the shining of the sun, and the dews of ...
... held to be true: that if he swayed the chief things of creation, he must have been before the stars of heaven; and they saw that if he ruled the courses of the heavenly bodies, he must also govern the shining of the sun, and the dews of ...
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... held more like gods than men. They made no end to their journeying till they were come north into the land that is now called Saxland; there Odin tarried for a long space, and took the land into his own hand, far and wide. In that land ...
... held more like gods than men. They made no end to their journeying till they were come north into the land that is now called Saxland; there Odin tarried for a long space, and took the land into his own hand, far and wide. In that land ...
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... themselves in their seats and held judgment, and called to mind whence the dwarves had quickened in the mould and underneath in the earth, even as do maggots in flesh. The dwarves had P THE SBEGUILINGP or GYLFI '25 i.
... themselves in their seats and held judgment, and called to mind whence the dwarves had quickened in the mould and underneath in the earth, even as do maggots in flesh. The dwarves had P THE SBEGUILINGP or GYLFI '25 i.
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... held counsel, Who should of dwarves shape the peoples From the bloody surge and the Blue One's bones. They made many in man's likeness, Dwarves in the earth, as Durinn said. And these, says the Sibyl, are their names: Nyi and N idi ...
... held counsel, Who should of dwarves shape the peoples From the bloody surge and the Blue One's bones. They made many in man's likeness, Dwarves in the earth, as Durinn said. And these, says the Sibyl, are their names: Nyi and N idi ...
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... held in memory among gods and men. XXIX. “Vidarr is the name of one, the silent god. He has a thick shoe. He is nearly as strong as Thor;. 1 Ram (Cl.-Vig.). 2 Golden-teeth. 3 Heaven-fells. ' Denial, refutation. 2 Wise, prudent. 3 Project ...
... held in memory among gods and men. XXIX. “Vidarr is the name of one, the silent god. He has a thick shoe. He is nearly as strong as Thor;. 1 Ram (Cl.-Vig.). 2 Golden-teeth. 3 Heaven-fells. ' Denial, refutation. 2 Wise, prudent. 3 Project ...
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