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Poetic Edda - Imperium Press (Western Canon)

By Anonymous, Thomas Rowsell (Foreword by), Tristan Powers (Text by)
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By Anonymous, Thomas Rowsell (Foreword by), Tristan Powers (Text by)
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The Poetic Edda is our main source for the myths of the Norse gods and heroes. Written down in medieval Iceland, this "original storehouse of Germanic mythology" collects 35 narrative poems recounting most of what we know about the religious beliefs of the ancient Northmen.

Henry Adams Bellows' 1923 translation has long been recognized as one of the most aesthetically faithful, being rendered in the original alliterative meters of the Norse poems. This revised edition updates it according to...

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PoetryGeneral & Miscellaneous PoetryEpic Poetry