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The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
Jackson Crawford
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Description for The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white halftones, colour illust. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 594.
The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc. Jackson Crawford's modern versions of these poems are authoritative and fluent and often very gripping. With their individual headnotes and complementary ... Read more
The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc. Jackson Crawford's modern versions of these poems are authoritative and fluent and often very gripping. With their individual headnotes and complementary ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9781624663574
SKU
V9781624663574
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-48
About Jackson Crawford
Jackson Crawford earned his Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies at the University of WisconsinMadison, and an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Georgia. He is currently Instructor of Nordic Studies and Coordinator of the Nordic Program, University of Colorado Boulder.
Reviews for The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
Jackson Crawford (translator of The Poetic Edda and soon be released, (Sept. 2017), The Saga of the Volsungs) has an active and popular You-Tube channel. An excellent and entertaining work that succeeds in achieving its intended purpose: to create an accessible and readable English translation of the Poetic Edda . Crawford's knowledge of and passion for the topic is clear ... Read more