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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
Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
"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
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9781624663567
SKU
V9781624663567
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99-50
About Jackson Crawford
After more than a decade as a full-time Instructor in Scandinavian Studies at such institutions as the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of California-Los Angeles, Dr. Jackson Crawford became a full-time public educator in all things Old Norse in 2020. Among other accomplishments, he has built up a large YouTube following and served as an Old ... Read more
Reviews for The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
"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 throughout, and he strikes an excellent balance between approachability and authenticity. I will most certainly be using this translation when I teach Norse mythology in the ... Read more