The Poetic Edda: Volume II: Mythological Poems

ISBN-13: 9780198111818 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 464 str.

Ursula Dronke

Opis

This volume presents five Norse poems, originally of oral composition, from the late ninth to the early eleventh century. Each has a translation and commentary, intoduction, analysis of structure and meaning, provenance and date. Voluspa traces the history of the earth and its deities, Rigspula pursues the divinely programmed progress of man from ancinet thralldom to contemporary kingship, Volundarkvida concerns the torn halfs of human nature, in the swan-woman and the elf-man, Skirnismal tells of the earth's feminine obstinacy that denies the sun-god his love and Lokasenna tells scandalous tales of the gods."

Recenzje

For lovers of the Poetic Edda, this volume will be a prized possession, enabling scholars and amateur enthusiasts alike to enter with ease into the daunting world of mythological poems... this is an edition of great power and potential influence... from now on it is likely that most English-speaking readers of the Poetic Edda will wish to take Edda II for their authoritative of Voluspa and the other poems.