Scandinavian Studies, December 22nd, 1998
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 of the poems and the beauty of the language, and to show the poets' intellectual command of their themes, mythological, religious, and human" (vii). The scholar has succeeded admirably in achieving her end.
The volume contains Voluspa (with Baldrs Draumar as an appendix), Rigspula, Volundarkvida, Lokasenna, and Skirni...
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