Description: Title: The Poetic Edda Author: Larrington, Carolyne Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Binding: Hardcover Pages: 384 Dimensions: 8.60h x 5.40w x 1.30d Product Weight: 1.2 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780198834571 "She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish." After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, the exploits of gods and humans are related. The one-eyed Odin, red-bearded Thor, Loki the trickster, the lovely goddesses, and the giants who are their enemies walk beside the heroic Helgi, Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer, Brynhild the shield-maiden, and the implacable Gudrun. This translation also features the quest-poem The Lay of Svipdag and The Waking of Angantyr, in which a girl faces down her dead father to retrieve his sword. Comic, tragic, instructive, grandiose, witty, and profound, the poems of the Edda have influenced artists from Wagner to Tolkien and speak to us as freely as when they were first written down seven hundred and fifty years ago.
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Book Title: Poetic Edda
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: Medieval, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Poetry
Genre: Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.8 in
Author: Carolyne Larrington
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardcover Collection
Item Width: 5.6 in
Format: Hardcover
