Poems of the Elder Edda, Anonymous
Poems of the Elder Edda, Anonymous
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Poems of the Elder Edda
Classics in Norse Literature

Author: Anonymous

Narrator: Shiromi Arserio, ThomaS Landbo, Matthew Posner, Wanda Moats

Unabridged: 6 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/30/2017


Synopsis

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.

About Anonymous

Anonymous is a USA Today bestselling author known for writing sizzling stories about flawed, passionate characters, including Aphrodite in Bloom.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cooper on May 22, 2009

A quite uneven mix of poems which contains, nevertheless, several ballads of real skill and an interesting set of "eclogues". Southey's taste for the macabre fits well with the Gothic, popular at the time, and the supernatural caste of Coleridge's best poems, though Southey's are merely gruesome, ge......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on December 14, 2012

I heard Southey mentioned in another book I was reading. The other book was a guilty pleasure and won't be mentioned here. I got curious and looked Southey up on the net. Holy Toledo! He rips open your deepest fear and tells a story that Stephen King would shake in his boots at reading. This edition......more

Goodreads review by Ira on February 12, 2010

Blood chilling poems which really gave me the creeps..;)......more