The Prose Edda

Posted on by

What was the beginning, or how did things start What was there beforeThe Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves and elves struggle for survival It also preserves the oral memory of heroes, warrior kings and queens In clear prose interspersed with powerful verse, the Edda provides unparalleled insight into the gods tragic realisation that the future holds one final cataclysmic battle, Ragnarok, when the world will be destroyed These tales from the pagan era have proved to be among the most influential of all myths and legends, inspiring modern works as diverse as Wagner s Ring Cycle and Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings.This new translation by Jesse Byock captures the strength and subtlety of the original, while his introduction sets the tales fully in the context of Norse mythology This edition also includes detailed notes and appendices. New Download The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr The Edda is a collection of Norse myths, written in the 13th century by a dude named Snorri It s where we got most of our knowledge of Norse mythology today, and it s wicked awesome I learned, for instance, that your legs may hump each other and produce a child while you re asleep, which is something I m going to becareful about from now on And that mead started as god spit, then turned into blood, and ended up being farted out of Odin s ass, which is, by a train of logic that actually The Edda is a collection of Norse myths, written in the 13th century by a dude named Snorri It s where we got most of our knowledge of Norse mythology today, and it s wicked awesome I learned, for instance, that your legs may hump each other and produce a child while you re asleep, which is something I m going to becareful about from now on And that mead started as god spit, then turned into blood, and ended up being farted out of Odin s ass, which is, by a train of logic that actually kinda makes sense when you read it, why it s called the drink of poets These are important things to know.I also learned that much of what I learned from reading Thor comics when I was 13 isn t totally accurate There s no mention at all of him being in the Avengers.I enjoyed learning about the Norse poetic style of kenning, where the point is to pile image upon image to make a complicated chain of meaning For in... AcknowledgementsIntroduction NotesFurther ReadingNote on the TranslationMap The Geographical World of the EddaThe Prose Edda Prologue Gylfaginning The Deluding of Gylfi Skaldskaparmal Poetic Diction Mythic and Legendary Tales Poetic References from Skaldskaparmal Translated by Russell Poole Appendices 1 The Norse Cosmos and the World Tree2 The Language of the Skalds Kennings and Heiti 3 Eddic Poems Use...It s sort of strange to give a review of a book like this as if I can sit here and complain that Thor s character feels underdeveloped, or that I didn t understand Odin s motivation for acting as he did It is, after all, from the 13th century, written by someone we might characterize as an Icelandic warlord and yet, as removed as I am, it s still fascinating The book is genuinely funny at times, and the stories of the Norse gods and goddesses have a sense of humor to them that even the Gre It s sort of strange to give a review of a book like this as if I can sit here and complain that Thor s character feels underdeveloped, or that I didn t understand Odin s motivation for acting as he did It is, after all, from the 13th century, written by someone we might characterize as an Icelandic warlord and yet, as removed as I am, it s still fascinating The book is genuinely funny at times, and the stories of the Norse gods and goddesses have a sense of humor to them that even the Greek myths can often miss The first book is a kind of Norse catechism, where a traveler is shown around Asgard and Midgard and has the cosmology of the Norse universe explained to him in a question and answer session After that comes a kind of poet s encyclopedia or dictionary, where the origins of words and names for things become jumping off points for the stories about the various gods and giants and whatnot, and its structure is very interesting Imagine if the Iliad had a comp...Did you know that all the Norse gods sir are descended from Priam of Troy, and therefore from Zeus himself Did you know apparently the Icelandic authors of the Viking myths are actually Plato disguised to continue his sick addiction to one sided interrogation for infodump If you did not, this book ...So after diving headlong into ancient Norse mythology and history, by way of the Heimskringla, The Poetic Edda, and Sagas of Icelanders in turn, I ve become everinterested in the subject and medieval literature generally There simply isn t enough extant, well preserved material to satisfy the desire to know everything,often we re left with as many questions as answers The Prose Edda is no exception Written by the Icelandic chieftain poet historian Snorri Sturluson in the 13th ce So after diving headlong into ancient Norse mythology and history, by way of the Heimskringla, The Poetic Edda, and Sagas of Icelanders in turn, I ve become everinterested in the subject and medieval literature generally There simply isn t enough extant, well preserved material to satisfy the desire to know everything,often we re left with as many questions as answers The Prose Edda is no exception Written by the Icelandic chieftain poet historian Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century, it holds a unique cultural position purely by accident.Snorri most likely intended this work to be a sort of medieval textbook for the aspiring Icelandic skald, or poet He cautions in the beginning to always imitate the chief skalds of the past in their methods, but never to believe the underlying mythical associations You see, Christi...The Sigur R s playlist, fittingly, is on, and we are back in business The army musterer gave mountain haunting ravens their fill The raven got full on she wolf s prey, and spears rang. Expectations versus reality You hear the term bandied about all the time and while my experience of it at least in the literature sphere might not have been as extreme as some, I feel I m coming closer to understanding that concept having finished the Edda I wasn t expecting to give this such an average The Sigur R s playlist, fittingly, is on, and we are back in business The army musterer gave mountain haunting ravens their fill The raven got full on she wolf s prey, and spears rang. Expectations versus reality You hear the term bandied about all the time and while my experience of it at least in the literature sphere might not have been as extreme as some, I feel I m coming closer to understanding that concept having finished the Edda I wasn t expecting to give this such an average rating medieval Iceland and Norse myth Sounds like a perfect blend, like those Christmas peppermint hot chocolates they used to do at Starbucks , but things started to go downhill after the story based Skaldskaparmal devolved into what appeared to be just another ordinary textbook What saved this one from a lower rating was the first 100 pages or so, and some of those morbidly beautiful poetic descriptions that made me wonder if I could get away with sneaking them into my own writing,...Snorri Sturluson r digea cette Edda ces vieilles l gendes norroises au d but du XIIIe si cle, alors que son pays, l Islande, tait depuis longtemps convertie au christianisme Snorri aborde donc de biais ce panorama du polyth isme scandinave En effet, son livre est avant tout un trait de po tique ou de rh torique la Skaldskaparmal, par exemple, recense une s rie de tournures, vocables, m t...I ve been meaning to read both this and the Poetic Edda for a while now, and starting the Icelandic Sagas was just the kick in the pants I needed to do it I felt like I could use some cultural context, and Snorri here provides it in spades Norse mythology is fascinating in that it represents a belief system that was actually practiced not so long ago, relatively speaking Rome officially converted in the early 300s and I think that most of Europe outside the empire was at least nominally Chris I ve been meaning to read both this and the Poetic Edda for a while now, and starting the Icelandic Sagas was just the kick in the pants I needed to do it I felt like I could use some cultural context, and Snorri here provides it in spades Norse mythology is fascinating in that it represents a belief system that was actually practiced not so long ago, relatively speaking Rome officially converted in the early 300s and I think that most of Europe outside the empire was at least nominally Christian by the 7th century or so So, the fact that Scandinavia remained pagan until after the 1st millennium, and probably much longer than that inremote areas, makes it rather unique There is a fun contrast between the grand designs and personalities of ...Norse mythology is always the coolest one 3Tis a divinity shopping list I m in the lesser gods section They re on two for one gets trolley rage at checkout

The Prose Edda
  • English
  • 03 October 2017
  • Paperback
  • 180 pages
  • 0140447555
  • Snorri Sturluson
  • The Prose Edda