Poems of the Elder Edda: Classics in Norse Literature

· Mondello Publishing · Narrated by Shiromi Arserio, ThomaS Landbo, Matthew Posner, and Wanda Moats
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The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Prose Edda, a collection of narrative literature, and its companion, the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and 13th centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex Regius. The poems are primarily lyrical rather than narrative. Terry's fine translation includes the magnificent cosmological poem, "The Völuspá", didactic poems concerned with mythology and the everyday conduct of life, and heroic poems, of which an important group is concerned with the story of Sigurd and Brynhild.

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4.1
12 reviews
Huntsman
January 21, 2025
Great, most of the narrators in this book do a fantastic job. the narrator that does the terrible Scottish accent though ruins it a bit I had to skip those chapters.
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Aaron Basford
November 10, 2022
really good read. well worth it and helpful
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Manya Dixit
October 22, 2021
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