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ISBN10: 0198111819, ISBN13: 9780198111818, [publisher: Clarendon Press] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]
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ISBN10: 0198111819, ISBN13: 9780198111818, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 textto 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 detailedcommentary. 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. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in ...
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