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Poems of the Elder Edda (The Middle Ages Series)
Patricia Ann Terry
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Description for Poems of the Elder Edda (The Middle Ages Series)
Paperback. A revised edition of Terry's classic Poems of the Vikings, long out of print. This edition has a new preface, updated references, and expanded notes and glossary. The translation itself has been extensively revised. Translator(s): Terry, Patricia. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex Regius.
The poems are primarily lyrical rather than narrative. Terry's readable translation includes the magnificent cosmological poem Völuspá ("The Sibyl's Prophecy"), didactic poems concerned with mythology and the everyday conduct of life, and heroic poems, of which an important group is concerned with the story of Sigurd and Brynhild.
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Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812282207
SKU
V9780812282207
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Patricia Ann Terry
Patricia Terry has taught literature at the University of California, San Diego, and at Barnard College. Poems of hers have appeared in ArtWord Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, The Hudson Review, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, and Ekphrasis. She is the translator, with Nancy Vine Durling, of The Romance of the Rose or Guillaume de Dole, by Jean Renart, also available from ... Read more
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