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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 4 September 1997
- ISBN 9780198111818
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages458 pages
- Size 243x161x31 mm
- Weight 830 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece, 1 halftone 0
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Short description:
This new edition of mythological poems from the Poetic Edda takes the reader deep into the imagination of the Viking poets (c.1000 AD). Text and translation are set side by side. The poetry is interpreted and its qualities discussed in full introductions and commentaries for each of the poems.
MoreLong description:
This volume presents a wholly new edition of five of the most brilliant and celebrated poems of the Poetic Edda: 'The Sibyl's Prophecy', 'The Rigmarole of Rigr', 'Wayland's Poem', 'Skirnir's Lay', and 'Loki's Quarrel'. New textual readings and interpretations are established. New light is shed on the Franks Casket and on King Alfred's interest in Wayland; new links are found between the Viking and Christian worlds. A close translation accompanies the text to give the non-specialist reader a transparent and rhythmic sense of the original. For each poem the sequence of ideas is traced in the introduction and the interpretation substantiated by a detailed commentary. Much consideration is given to the themes of the poems and the ancient ideas in which they are rooted: analogues come from many sources - Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Sanskrit, African, and Finnish. The excellence and variety of the poems give a rare insight into the genius of oral poets of the Viking age.
Her textual analysis is ... excellent and challenging, and her notes on the manuscript tradition illuminating her comments are instructive ... the work is a remarkable achievement, throwing new light on the background and composition of the texts examined: the comments are most instructive, and the discussions open new perspectives. An outstanding book, henceforth indispensable for all students of the Poetic Edda.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
The Manuscripts
The Printed Text
Abbreviations
Voluspá
Rigspula
Volundarkvida
Lokasenna
Skirnismál
[all five poems divided into Contents, Text and Translation, Introduction, Commentary on the Text; Voluspá also featuring an Appendix: Baldrs Draumar Text, Translation, and Commentary; Volundarkvida also featuring an Index of Personal Names]
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