Edda

Author : The Norroena Society
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781440131790

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The Ásatrú Edda by The Norroena Society Pdf

From the ashes arises the sacred lore of the North, the ancient stories and proverbial wisdom of the satr religion. Mighty Gods and fierce Giants battle in the never-ending struggle between order and chaos, while men seek honor and glory in the eyes of their beloved deities. After many years of research and piecing together sources, now comes the first known holy text ever presented for the satr faith. Giving these ancestral accounts in their true, epic form, The satr Edda is designed as a religious work by and for the men and women of this path. In reconstructing this sacred epic, the idea is to create a living storytelling tradition that will honor the legacy of the ancient Teutonic peoples, while providing an in-depth source of satr wisdom for our modern world.

Author : Snorri Sturluson,Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486451510

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The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson,Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur Pdf

The wellspring for modern knowledge of Norse mythology, these legends of gods and heroes were created to preserve the Vikings' narrative style from European influence. Edda means "poetic art," and this guidebook for Icelandic poets has been a timeless inspiration for generations of writers, including Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien.

Author : Conor Kostick
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781847174178

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Edda by Conor Kostick Pdf

Edda is a 'virtual' world ruled by the electronic intelligence of Lord Scanthax. Penelope is a teenager ensnared in Edda. Can she uncover the truth about her human past and gain her freedom? And are there other humans still 'out there'? A fast-moving fantasy from the author of internationally acclaimed Epic and Saga. Edda has all the exciting elements of avatars, mythical beings, magic, and cataclysmic battles, but also challenges the older reader to think deeply about humanity and power. 'A captivating page-turner.' School Library Journal, starred review of Epic, Conor Kostick's first novel.

Author : Andy Orchard
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141943473

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The Elder Edda by Andy Orchard Pdf

Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Völsung family, the Hel-ride of Brynhild and the cruelty of Atli the Hun. Eclectic, incomplete and fragmented, these verses nevertheless retain their stark beauty and their power to enthrall, opening a window on to the thoughts, beliefs and hopes of the Vikings and their world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1797
Category : Edda Sæmundar
ISBN : OXFORD:400068049

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Icelandic Poetry, Or The Edda of Saemund by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher D. Sapp
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257710

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Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda by Christopher D. Sapp Pdf

This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda , perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age. This study compares the anonymous Eddic poems to dated skaldic poems with respect to five phenomena that develop diachronically in early Old Norse: the expletive particle of, types of negation, word order, types of relative clause, and metrical criteria. After examining these dating features individually, the three most reliable criteria—the particle of, negation, and relative clause type—are combined into a multifactorial analysis using a Naïve Bayes Classifier. The classifier assigns a date to each Eddic poem, and these proposed dates have interesting implications for our understanding of these texts as sources for the medieval history, mythology, linguistics, and literature of the Germanic peoples. This book will have broad interdisciplinary interest, not just to historical linguists and philologists but also to scholars of Norse history, literature, and mythology.

Author : L. A. Waddell
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781473393233

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The British Edda - The Great Epic Poem of the Ancient Britons on the Exploits of King Thor, Arthur or Adam and his Knights in Establishing Civilization Reforming Eden & Capturing the Holy Grail About 3380-3350 B.C. by L. A. Waddell Pdf

This book is a Sumerian, Egyptian and English mythology and linguistics epic narrating the fantastical adventures of Wodan, Loki and El, who comprise the Eden Triad of the Garden of Eden. An adventurous tale rich with mythological wonder and legendary story telling, this text combines heroic narrative with speculative insights into ancient history and the origins of civilisation, promising to entertain and provoke the mind of the discerning reader Laurence Waddell was an explorer, Professor of Chemistry and Pathology, British army surgeon, collector, philologist, archaeologist, Doctor of Laws, and author. First published in 1930, The British Edda is now published with a biography of the author and is a must-have for any collector of Waddell’s work.

Author : Kevin J. Wanner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802098016

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Snorri Sturluson and the Edda by Kevin J. Wanner Pdf

Wanner brings us a new account of the interests that motivated the production of the Edda, and resolves the mystery of its genesis by demonstrating the intersection of Snorri's political and cultural concerns and practices.

Author : Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780199675340

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The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington Pdf

This collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry contains the greater narratives of the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods.

Author : Henry Adams Bellows
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486140605

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The Poetic Edda by Henry Adams Bellows Pdf

This vibrant compilation presents the heroic sagas of ancient Scandinavia. Its timeless legends of superhuman warriors and doomed lovers have inspired Wagner's "Ring Cycle" and Tolkien's "Middle-earth."

Author : Paul Acker,Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136601361

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The Poetic Edda by Paul Acker,Carolyne Larrington Pdf

This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of the major poems, this book yields a variety of powerful and convincing readings. Contributors to the collection are both young scholars and senior figures in the discipline, and are of varying nationalities (American, British, Australian, Scandinavian, and Icelandic), thus ensuring a range of interpretations from different corners of the scholarly community. The new translations included here make available for the first time to English speaking students the intriguing methodologies that are currently developing in Scandinavia. An essential collection of scholarship for any Old Norse course, The Poetic Edda will also be of interest to scholars of Indo-European myth, as well as those who study the theory of myth.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780292792548

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The Poetic Edda by Anonim Pdf

The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early Christian times. Collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, The Poetic Edda was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars. Even then its value as poetry, as a source of historical information, and as a collection of entertaining stories was recognized. This meticulous translation succeeds in reproducing the verse patterns, the rhythm, the mood, and the dignity of the original in a revision that Scandinavian Studies says "may well grace anyone's bookshelf."

Author : Paul Acker,Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136227875

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Revisiting the Poetic Edda by Paul Acker,Carolyne Larrington Pdf

Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigurðr; Brynhildr the implacable shield-maiden; tragic Guðrún and her children; Attila the Hun (from a Norse perspective!); and greedy King Fróði, whose name lives on in Tolkien’s Frodo. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the poems for students, taking a number of fresh, theoretically-sophisticated and productive approaches to the poetry and its characters. Contributors bring to bear insights generated by comparative study, speech act and feminist theory, queer theory and psychoanalytic theory (among others) to raise new, probing questions about the heroic poetry and its reception. Each essay is accompanied by up-to-date lists of further reading and a contextualisation of the poems or texts discussed in critical history. Drawing on the latest international studies of the poems in their manuscript context, and written by experts in their individual fields, engaging with the texts in their original language and context, but presented with full translations, this companion volume to The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology (Routledge, 2002) is accessible to students and illuminating for experts. Essays also examine the afterlife of the heroic poems in Norse legendary saga, late medieval Icelandic poetry, the nineteenth-century operas of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, and the recently published (posthumous) poem by Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486139050

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The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems by Anonim Pdf

The ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen live on in these translations known as the "Lays of the Gods." This 13th-century collection recaptures a mythical world that influenced Tolkien and other storytellers.

Author : Bertha S. Phillpotts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107694842

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The Elder Edda and Ancient Scandinavian Drama by Bertha S. Phillpotts Pdf

Originally published in 1920, this book provides a theory of the dramatic origin of the older Eddic poems. Whilst the Eddic collection in general can be seen to contain a variety of unrelated elements, there is an essential unity to the older poems on native subjects. This can be seen in their special metre, their dialogic or monologic form, bearing traces of improvisation by one or more speakers, their stage directions, their stock scenes, their taste for disguised or theriomorphic characters, and their fixed traditional plots. In analysing this unity, the text brings forth observations on the relationship between the poems and the socio-cultural context in which they were written. This is a highly informative volume that will be of value to anyone with an interest in Old Norse literature and literary criticism.