The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
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These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians. Jackson Crawford's modern versions of these poems are authoritative and fluent and often very gripping. With their individual headnotes and complementary general introduction, they supply today's readers with most of what they need to know in order to understand and appreciate the beliefs, motivations, and values of the Vikings.
Author: Jackson Crawford
Format: Paperback, 392 pages, 140mm x 216mm, 454 g
Published: 2015, Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, United States
Genre: Poetry Texts & Poetry Anthologies
Description
These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians. Jackson Crawford's modern versions of these poems are authoritative and fluent and often very gripping. With their individual headnotes and complementary general introduction, they supply today's readers with most of what they need to know in order to understand and appreciate the beliefs, motivations, and values of the Vikings.
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes