Poetic Edda Volume II - Mythological Poems

Zusatztext For lovers of the Poetic Edda! this volume will be a prized possession! enabling scholars and amateur enthusiasts alike to enter with ease into the daunting world of mythological poems... this is an edition of great power and potential influence... from now on it is likely that most English-speaking readers of the Poetic Edda will wish to take Edda II for their authoritative of Voluspa and the other poems. Klappentext This new edition of mythological poems from the Poetic Edda takes the reader deep into the imagination of the Viking poets (c.1000 AD). Setting text and translation side by side, Dronke provides full introductions and commentaries for each of the poems. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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] Bibliography

List 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]


• Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Ursula Dronke
• Assisted by: Ursula Dronke (Editor), Ursula Dronke (Translation), Ursula Dronke (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.1997
• EAN: 9780198111818
• ISBN: 978-0-19-811181-8
• No. of pages: 458
• Series: Poetic Edda; Dronke Poetic Edda; Dronke Poetic Edda
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Old Norse