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Poems of the Elder Edda

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2014

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The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex Regius.

The poems are primarily lyrical rather than narrative. Terry's readable translation includes the magnificent cosmological poem Völuspá ("The Sibyl's Prophecy"), 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.

Poems of the Elder Edda will appeal to students of Old Norse, Icelandic, and Medieval literature, as well as to general readers of poetry.

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Patricia Terry has taught literature at the University of California, San Diego, and at Barnard College. Poems of hers have appeared in ArtWord Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, The Hudson Review, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, and Ekphrasis. She is the translator, with Nancy Vine Durling, of The Romance of the Rose or Guillaume de Dole, by Jean Renart, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface to the Revised Edition

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    Preface to the 1969 Edition

    xi
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    Introduction

    xv
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    Völuspá

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    Sayings of the High One

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    The Lay of Vafthrudnir

    36
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    The Lay of Grimnir

    46
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    Skirnir's Journey

    50
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    The Lay of Harbard

    58
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    The Lay of Hymir

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    The Insolence of Loki

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    The Lay of Thrym

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    The Lay of Alvis

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    The Lay of Volund

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    The Lay of Helgi Hjorvard's Son

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    The First Lay of Helgi Hunding's Bane

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    The Second Lay of Helgi Hunding's Bane

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    The Prophecy of Gripir

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    The Lay of Regin

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    The Lay of Fafnir

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    The Lay of Sigrdrifa

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    Fragment of a Sigurd Lay

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    The Grief of Gudrun

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    The Short Lay of Sigurd

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    Brynhild's Journey to Hel

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    The Second Lay of Gudrun

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    The Third Lay of Gudrun

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    Oddrun's Lament O

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    The Lay of Atli

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    The Greenland Lay of Atli

    215
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    Gudrun's Chain of Woes

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    The Lay of Hamdir

    235
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    Balder's Dreams

    241
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    The Mill Song

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    The Waking of Angantyr

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    Glossary and Index of Proper Names

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    Bibliography of Works Cited 269

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September 26, 2014
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9780812291599
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https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291599
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Literature; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Cultural Studies
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