Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title The poetic Edda : essays on Old Norse mythology / edited by Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington
Published London : Routledge, [2016]

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xviii, 289 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge medieval casebooks
Medieval casebooks.
Contents The founding of Miðgarðr (Vo̜luspá 1-8) / Lars Lönnroth ; tr. Paul Acker -- Gunno̜ð and the precious mead (Hávamál) / Svava Jakobsdóttir ; tr. Katrina Attwood -- Vafþrúðnismál and Grímnismál : cosmic history, cosmic geography / Carolyne Larrington -- Cursing with the thistle : 'Skírnismál' 31, 6-8 and OE metrical charm 9, 16-17 / Joseph Harris -- Hárbarðsljóð as generic farce / Carol Clover -- Þorr's fishing expedition (Hymiskviða) / Preben Meulengracht Sørensen ; tr. Kirsten Williams -- Form and content in Lokasenna : a re-evaluation / Philip N. Anderson -- Loki's mythological function in the tripartite system (Lokasenna) / Jerold C. Frakes -- Reading Þrymskviða / Margaret Clunies Ross -- The context of Vo̜lundarkviða / John McKinnell -- Dwarf-lore in Alvíssmál / Paul Acker -- Rígsþula : some medieval Christian analogues / Thomas D. Hill -- Dialogue with a vo̜lva : Vo̜luspá, Baldrs draumar and Hyndluljóð / Judy Quinn
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index
Notes Originally published 2002 by Routledge
Vendor-supplied metadata
SUBJECT Edda Sæmundar. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50080078
Edda Sæmundar fast
Subject Eddas -- History and criticism
Old Norse poetry -- History and criticism
Mythology, Norse, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Eddas
Mythology, Norse, in literature
Old Norse poetry
Lied-Edda (anoniem)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Acker, Paul, 1952- editor.
Larrington, Carolyne, editor.
ISBN 9781136601361
1136601368
9781136601354
113660135X