Author: M. Mallet Publisher: ISBN: 9780898759532 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 588
Book Description
A historical account of the manners, customs, religion and laws, maritime expeditions and discoveries, language and literature of the ancient Scandinavians (Danes, Swedes, Norwegians and Icelanders). The book also includes a translation of the prose Edda from the original old Norse text; with critical and explanatory notes; and an abstract of the Eybyggja Saga, by Sir Walter Scott.
Author: Hermann Palsson Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141913681 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 340
Book Description
An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society.
Author: Heather O'Donoghue Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191034363 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History traces the influence of Old Norse myth — stories and poems about the familiar gods and goddesses of the pagan North, such as Odin, Thor, Baldr and Freyja — on poetry in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Especial care is taken to determine the precise form in which these poets encountered the mythic material, so that the book traces a parallel history of the gradual dissemination of Old Norse mythic texts. Very many major poets were inspired by Old Norse myth. Some, for instance the Anglo-Saxon poet of Beowulf, or much later, Sir Walter Scott, used Old Norse mythic references to lend dramatic colour and apparent authenticity to their presentation of a distant Northern past. Others, like Thomas Gray, or Matthew Arnold, adapted Old Norse mythological poems and stories in ways which both responded to and helped to form the literary tastes of their own times. Still others, such as William Blake, or David Jones, reworked and incorporated celebrated elements of Norse myth - valkyries weaving the fates of men, or the great World Tree Yggdrasill on which Odin sacrificed himself - as personal symbols in their own poetry. This book also considers less familiar literary figures, showing how a surprisingly large number of poets in English engaged in individual ways with Old Norse myth. English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History demonstrates how attitudes towards the pagan mythology of the north change over time, but reveals that poets have always recognized Old Norse myth as a vital part of the literary, political and historical legacy of the English-speaking world.
Author: M. Mallet
Author: Paul Henri Mallet
Author: Mallet Paul Henri
Author: Paul Henri Mallet
Author: Paul Henri Mallet
Author: Paul Henri Mallet
Author: Hermann Palsson
Author: Eyrbyggja Saga
Author: Heather O'Donoghue
Author: Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York. Library