Poetic Edda / / Edward Pettit.

• VerfasserIn: Pettit, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: A Dual-Language Edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (896 pages)

This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda. Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known as the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda. The poems cover diverse subjects, including the creation, destruction and rebirth of the world, the dealings of gods such as Óðinn, Þórr and Loki with giants and each other, and the more intimate, personal tragedies of the hero Sigurðr, his wife Guðrún and the valkyrie Brynhildr.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Signs and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Poems from the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda (Gammel kongelig Samling 2365 4to) -- Vǫluspá (Codex Regius) -- Hávamál -- Vafþrúðnismál -- Grímnismál -- Fǫr Skírnis -- Hárbarðsljóð -- Hymiskviða -- Lokasenna -- Þrymskviða -- Vǫlundarkviða -- Alvíssmál -- Helgakviða Hundingsbana in fyrri -- Helgakviða Hjǫrvarðssonar -- Helgakviða Hundingsbana ǫnnur -- Frá dauða Sinfjǫtla -- Grípisspá -- Reginsmál -- Fáfnismál -- Sigrdrífumál -- Brot af Sigurðarkviðu -- Guðrúnarkviða in fyrsta -- Sigurðarkviða in skamma -- Helreið Brynhildar -- Dráp Niflunga -- Guðrúnarkviða ǫnnur -- Guðrúnarkviða in þriðja -- Oddrúnargrátr -- Atlakviða in grœnlenzka -- Atlamál in grœnlenzku -- Guðrúnarhvǫt -- Hamðismál -- Poems from Other Manuscripts -- Vǫluspá (Hauksbók) -- Baldrs draumar -- Rígsþula -- Hyndluljóð -- Svipdagsmál (Gróugaldr and Fjǫlsvinnsmál) -- Index.