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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... means cer- tain that repentance stayed his hand . Indeed , familiar as he was with the hopelessly anarchical conditions of his native land , its devastating feuds , its plethora of lawless , unscru- pulous chiefs , all striving for ...
... means cer- tain that repentance stayed his hand . Indeed , familiar as he was with the hopelessly anarchical conditions of his native land , its devastating feuds , its plethora of lawless , unscru- pulous chiefs , all striving for ...
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... means of models drawn , in the one case , from acknow- ledged masters of the craft , in the other , by the example of a complete skaldic trilogy , the work of a man who was accepted by his own time as a worthy successor of Bragi ...
... means of models drawn , in the one case , from acknow- ledged masters of the craft , in the other , by the example of a complete skaldic trilogy , the work of a man who was accepted by his own time as a worthy successor of Bragi ...
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... on the earth . One thing they wondered and pondered over : what it might mean , that the earth and the beasts and the birds had one nature in some ways , and yet were unlike in manner of life . In this was their nature one : that.
... on the earth . One thing they wondered and pondered over : what it might mean , that the earth and the beasts and the birds had one nature in some ways , and yet were unlike in manner of life . In this was their nature one : that.
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... 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 , and there grew under his left hand a man and a woman , and one of his feet ...
... 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 , and there grew under his left hand a man and a woman , and one of his feet ...
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... means of these , all other tools . After this they smithied metal and stone and wood , and wrought so abun- dantly that metal which is called gold , that they had all their household ware and all dishes of gold ; and that time is called ...
... means of these , all other tools . After this they smithied metal and stone and wood , and wrought so abun- dantly that metal which is called gold , that they had all their household ware and all dishes of gold ; and that time is called ...
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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