Poetic Edda I Dictionary of Mythological Tales
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Poetic Edda is essentially an amazing portable library that can easily lead you to a variety of other books because so many mythological creatures are brefly mentioned. Many of these names actually refer to other stories. I'd consider it a dictionary or reference book of stories rather than simply a single epic poem. The downside is how condensed the information is makes it rather difficult to read for those who are unfamiliar with Norse Mythology. The upside is this makes it a fabulous book for re-reading because there's always something new to discover.
My quotes & information mentioned are all from the introduction in the Oxford World’s Classics edition pictured on your screen. This video is simply a brief introduction for this book with some background information for newbies or folks who are curious about if they'd like to read it or not.
A list all the pronounced names in order of appearance, in case I mispronounced them so much, they aren’t recognizable for Norwegian speakers.
Snorri Sturluson
Poetic Edda
Prose Edda
Younger Edda
Finnish Kalevala
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
India’s Mahabharata
Thomas Gray
William Morris
W. H. Auden
Richard Wagner
August Strindberg
Carl Larsson
Jorge Luis Borges
J.R.R. Tolkien
C.S. Lewis
Alan Garner
Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Codex Regis.
AM 748 42 manuscript
Baldrs draumar (Baldr's dreams)
The Waking of Angantyr
List of Rig
Song of Hyndla
Song of Grotti
‘neo-eddic’
Groa’s Chant
Sayings of Fjolsvinn.
The Waking of Angantyr
Saga of Hervor and Heidrek
Seeress’s Prophecy
Lay of Hammier
Poem of Atli.
Bishop Brynjolf Sveinsson
Saemund the Wise
Saemundar Edda or the Elder Edda
Snorra Edda, the Prose Edda or the Younger Edda.
Thor
Odin
Wagnerrrrr!!! Lol I’m a little obsessed with the Ring Cycle right now and it makes me very eager to read this and the Prose Edda. I found all of this information so interesting! I have a Project Gutenberg copy printed out and ready to read 😎
Wagner's a cool cat. Super questionable lifestyle or impression on history, but his artistic work is amazing. The Nibelungenlied is still on my list, just gotta get to it. 🤓 The translation for the Prose Edda ... Bellows has beautiful language but was, what's denser than concrete? Ursula's, if you can get your hands on a copy, I hear is the best. She put heaps of time into making it a thorough translation. I only saw parts of it at my uni library but it looks fascinating. The one in my video & this fellow on youtube are great for newbies to it. Jackson Crawford, he's an Old Norse scholar and he made a modern translation of it. His channel rocks. 😎
@@BiblioAtlas "Super questionable lifestyle or impression on history"
How so?
*Heading off to Book Depository to purchase a copy.*
Cool to see you over here! * waves like a nerd * I hope you enjoy this one, I think you'll like it. Have a great weekend! 😎
Great video! I sampled the Prose Edda during Sagalong, but didn’t get very far. I have Gaiman’s book on Norse Mythology, so I’ll start there. ☺️
I found the Prose Edda to be the most difficult of all the epics I read these past 2 years. It's the concrete level of mythological denseness. Norse Mythology is a great place to start. I think it was Petra who also mentioned that on one of her videos. 😊
Awesome, thanks!!