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    Poems of the Elder Edda: Classics in Norse Literature
    Poems of the Elder Edda: Classics in Norse Literature
    Poems of the Elder Edda: Classics in Norse Literature
    Audiobook6 hours

    Poems of the Elder Edda: Classics in Norse Literature

    Published by Mondello Publishing

    Narrated by Shiromi Arserio, ThomaS Landbo, Matthew Posner and Wanda Moats

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    About this audiobook

    The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Prose Edda, a collection of narrative literature, and its companion, the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and 13th centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex Regius. The poems are primarily lyrical rather than narrative. Terry's fine translation includes the magnificent cosmological poem, "The Völuspá", didactic poems concerned with mythology and the everyday conduct of life, and heroic poems, of which an important group is concerned with the story of Sigurd and Brynhild.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMondello Publishing
    Release dateSep 21, 2015
    ISBN9781940650159
    Poems of the Elder Edda: Classics in Norse Literature

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    • 5/5
      Great book. Historically researched and translated. Very well read too.

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    • 4/5
      Worth the listen I enjoyed it, read pretty well too.
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      Intresting and good bok! I recomend it would read again