Poems of the Elder Edda
By: translated by Patricia Terry ; with an introduction by Charles W. Dunn.
Contributors: Terry, Patricia Ann, 1929-
Edition: [Rev. ed.].
Series: Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Old Norse poetry -- Translations into English.; Eddas -- Translations into English.; Middle Ages -- Poetry.
Description: 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.Poems of the Elder Edda will appeal to students of Old Norse, Icelandic, and Medieval literature, as well as to general readers of poetry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]) and index.
Translation of: Edda Sæmundar.