The Prose Edda
Tales from Norse Mythology
Snorri Sturluson(Author)
University of California Press
Published on 25. April 2002
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Paperback/Softback
131 pages
978-0-520-23477-2 (ISBN)
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"Prose Edda" is a work without predecessor or parallel. Snorri Sturluson feared that the traditional techniques of Norse poetics, the pagan kennings, and the allusions to mythology would be forgotten with the introduction of new verse forms from Europe. "Prose Edda" was designed as a handbook for poets to compose in the style of the skalds of the Viking ages. It is an exposition of the rule of poetic diction with many examples, applications, and retellings of myths and legends. The present selection includes the whole of Gylfaginning (The deluding of Gylfi) - a guide to mythology that forms one of the great storybooks of the Middle Ages - and the longer heroic tales and legends of Skaldskaparmal (Poetic diction). Snorri Sturluson was a master storyteller, and this translation in modern idiom of the inimitable tales of the gods and heroes of the Scandinavian peoples brings them to life again.
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Edition
Revised ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 0 mm
Weight
27 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-23477-2 (9780520234772)
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Iceland's most versatile literary genius, Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241) was born in western Iceland, the son of a great chieftain. Early in his career, he won a reputation at home and in Norway for his poetic talents. Later he traveled to Norway and wrote about the lives of the kings: Heimskringla Saga, Egil's Saga, and Saint Olaf's Saga, a work unsurpassed in Icelandic prose.