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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... hold all that true which is found in these songs concerning their wayfarings and their battles . ' Of · ... the written prose sources he drew upon he. 1 An excellent description and classification of the MSS . may be found in The Saga ...
... hold all that true which is found in these songs concerning their wayfarings and their battles . ' Of · ... the written prose sources he drew upon he. 1 An excellent description and classification of the MSS . may be found in The Saga ...
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... hold , sweat reeked , to Den- mark's increase ; eight eyes , gleaming brow- lights , and four heads in their plowing . II . King Gylfi was a wise man and skilled in magic ; he was much troubled that the Æsir - people were so cunning ...
... hold , sweat reeked , to Den- mark's increase ; eight eyes , gleaming brow- lights , and four heads in their plowing . II . King Gylfi was a wise man and skilled in magic ; he was much troubled that the Æsir - people were so cunning ...
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... hold him God , of whom ye but now spake ? " And Jafnhárr answered : " By no means do we acknowledge him God ; he was evil and all his kin- dred : we call them Rime - Giants . Now it is said that when he slept , a sweat came upon him ...
... hold him God , of whom ye but now spake ? " And Jafnhárr answered : " By no means do we acknowledge him God ; he was evil and all his kin- dred : we call them Rime - Giants . Now it is said that when he slept , a sweat came upon him ...
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... hold that he must be so called ; so is that man called whom we know to be mightiest and most worthy of honor , and ye do well to let him be so called . " VII . Then said Gangleri : " What covenant was between them , or which was the ...
... hold that he must be so called ; so is that man called whom we know to be mightiest and most worthy of honor , and ye do well to let him be so called . " VII . Then said Gangleri : " What covenant was between them , or which was the ...
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... hold their tribunal . Each day the Æsir ride thither up over Bifröst , which is also called the Æsir's Bridge . These are the names of the Æsir's steeds : Sleipnir ' is best , which Odin has ; he has eight feet .. The second is Gladr ...
... hold their tribunal . Each day the Æsir ride thither up over Bifröst , which is also called the Æsir's Bridge . These are the names of the Æsir's steeds : Sleipnir ' is best , which Odin has ; he has eight feet .. The second is Gladr ...
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abode Adils Ægir Ægir's Æsir Allfather Arnórr sang Ásgard asked bade Baldr battle Baugi blood Bölverkr Bragi brother Brynhildr Cl.-Vig daughter didst drink dwarves dwell eagle earth Edda Einarr sang Einarr Tinkling-Scale Eyvindr Fáfnir fair father fetter fire Freyja Freyr Frigg Fródi Gangleri gave Geirrödr giant gods Gudrún Gunnarr hair hall hammer hand Hárr Hárr answered heaven Heimdallr Hermódr Hildr Hill-Giants Högni horse host Hreidmarr Hrólfr Kraki Hrungnir Hymir Idunn Jónsson Jörmunrekkr Jötunheim King land Loki mead metaphors Midgard Serpent mighty Mjöllnir Múspell night Njördr o'er Odin Odin's Óttarr periphrase poesy praise Prince ravens Refr sang Reginn Rime-Giants rode sang further saying shield ship Sigurdr Skadi Skald Skrýmir slayer Snorri's song sons spake steed stones straightway Surtr sword thee things Thjálfi Thjazi Thjódólfr sang Thor Thor's thou told took Týr Úlfr Uggason Útgarda-Loki Valhall Vanir Völuspá weapons wife wise Wolf woman Ymir