![]() ![]() With their individual headnotes and complementary general introduction, they supply today's readers with most of what they need to know in order to understand and appreciate the beliefs, motivations, and values of the Vikings. ![]() But it’s an easy road to a good friend, no matter how long the journey. It’s a long and crooked walk to a bad friend, even if he lives nearby. There are many different translations of the Poetic Edda available. ![]() It’s a collection of completely random stories (or perhaps the most well known ones at the time) about Norse Gods and Heroes. Jackson Crawford, The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes. To quote Jackson Crawford, The Poetic Edda is much like a shuffled iTunes playlist. Jackson Crawford's modern versions of these poems are authoritative and fluent and often very gripping. When a real battle starts, you’ll always find that there is no bravest man. 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. ![]() Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. "The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Tales include Völuspá (Creaton of the Norse world) and Þrymskviða (A tale of when Thor lost his hammer) This Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse anonymous poems that has been translated by Old Norse professor, Dr Jackson Crawford. ![]()
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