Henry Adams Bellows

The Poetic Edda (eBook, ePUB)

The Heroic Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Passed down long ago from poet to poet and singer to singer in the great oral tradition of Scandinavia, this collection of heroic sagas explores a mythical world. Incorporating legends of Norse gods and heroes, great fires and floods, superhuman warriors and doomed lovers, these dramatic poems weave vivid portraits of powerful characters caught up in passion, ambition, and destiny. Filled with gripping conceptions of the world's creation and ultimate destruction, the verses chronicle the triumphs and tragedies of a lost mythological past, where words of wisdom and beauty echoed off the steel of waving swords.
The hero poems of The Poetic Edda are literary monuments that have inspired such luminaries as Richard Wagner and J. R. R. Tolkien. This Dover edition, which includes exceptionally detailed and complete translations by Henry Adams Bellows, will continue to enchant new generations of readers. It is a companion to The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems, also available from Dover Publications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486140605
• Artikelnr.: 39138717

Autorenporträt

Translated by Henry Adams Bellows

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction Lays of the Heroes Völundarkvitha Helgakvitha
Hjorvarthssonar Helgakvitha Hundingsbana I Helgakvitha Hundingsbana II Fra
Dautha Sinfjotla Gripisspo Reginsmol Fafnismol Sigrdrifumol Brot af
Sigurtharkvithu Guthrunarkvitha Sigurtharkvitha en Skamma Helreith
Brynhildar Drap Niflunga Guhtrunarkvitha II, en Forna Guhtrunarkvitha III
Oddrunargratr Atlakvitha en Grönlenzka Atlamol en Grönlenzku Guthrunarhvot
Hamthesmol