Poetic Edda

Name: Poetic Edda
Brand: Jackson Crawford
SKU: 9781624663567
Price: 24.14 GBP
Availability: InStock

by Jackson Crawford

Title:

Poetic Edda

Author:

Jackson Crawford

Series (if any):

Hackett Classics

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

392 pages, 0

Publisher:

Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

ISBN-13:

9781624663567

EAN:

9781624663567

Publication Date:

05/03/2015

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

576

Dimensions (mm):

142 x 215 x 19

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£24.14

13 copies in stock

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Description

"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. 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, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc. 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."—Dick Ringler, Professor Emeritus of English and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison