Book – PDF Carolyne Larrington - The Poetic Edda [OEF]

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The collection of Norse–Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as the Poetic Edda contains the great narratives of the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods.
The mythological poems explore the wisdom of the gods and giants and narrate the adventures of the god Thor against the hostile giants and the gods’ rivalries amongst themselves.
The heroic poems trace the exploits of the hero Helgi and his valkyrie bride, the tragic tale of Sigurd and Brynhild’s doomed love, and the terrible drama of Gudrun, daughter of Giuki, Sigurd’s widow, and her children.
Most of the poems exist in a single manuscript written in Iceland around 1270, but many of them pre-date the conversion of Scandinavia to Christianity and allow us to glimpse the pagan beliefs of the North.

Carolyne Larrington is a Fellow and Tutor in medieval English at St John’s College, Oxford.

This is the revised 2014 edition, published by the Oxford University Press.

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