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 Poetic Edda Information
3,116 words, approx. 10 pages
 The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic...
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 Medium Aevum The Poetic Edda, II: Mythological Poems.(Review)
03/22/1999: 1,128 words, approx. 4 pages The Poetic Edda, II: Mythological Poems, ed., trans., introd., and commentary by Ursula Dronke (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). 464 pp. ISBN 0-19-811181-9. 70.00 [pounds sterling]. The long-awaited second volume of Ursula Dronke's edition of eddic poems has now appeared. It adds six to... summary from source:
Scandinavian Studies The Poetic Edda, vol. 2, Mythological Poems.(Review) (book reviews)
12/22/1998: 974 words, approx. 3 pages Ursula Dronke, ed. The Poetic Edda. Vol. 2. Mythological Poems. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. i-xiv + 443. "The purpose of this edition is literary"--Ursula Dronke announces in the Preface--"to open up for the common reader the delights of the complexities and felicities...
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 Critical Essay by Sigurdur Nordal
19,744 words, approx. 66 pages
In the following essay, originally published in 1952, Nordal presents an in-depth examination of the Eddic poem Völuspá (The Sibyl's Prophecy), discussing its critical and textual history, framework, content, and structure, its anonymous author, the facts of its composition, and its overall artistic merit.
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Critical Essay by Peter Hallberg
16,198 words, approx. 54 pages
In the following essay, Hallberg surveys and analyzes the various modes of metaphorical language employed in the poetry of the Elder Edda, identifying the aesthetic and thematic functions of mythological and heroic kennings, as well as examining other forms of imagery, epithet, and linguistic parallelism.
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Critical Essay by Uli Linke
10,981 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, Linke studies the symbolic representation of female procreative power—and an instance of male appropriation of that power—in the Elder Edda.
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