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The Poetic Edda (Hardcover)
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The Poetic Edda (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
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She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally
green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the
mountain hunting fish. After the terrible conflagration of
Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life
is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's Prophecy
which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its
destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of
Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, the exploits of
gods and humans are related. The one-eyed Odin, red-bearded Thor,
Loki the trickster, the lovely goddesses, and the giants who are
their enemies walk beside the heroic Helgi, Sigurd the
Dragon-Slayer, Brynhild the shield-maiden, and the implacable
Gudrun. This translation also features the quest-poem The Lay of
Svipdag and The Waking of Angantyr, in which a girl faces down her
dead father to retrieve his sword. Comic, tragic, instructive,
grandiose, witty, and profound, the poems of the Edda have
influenced artists from Wagner to Tolkien and speak to us as freely
as when they were first written down seven hundred and fifty years
ago.
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