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Pages: 675
Pages: 675
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a
Language: en
Pages: 148
Pages: 148
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and s
Language: en
Pages: 208
Pages: 208
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-10 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
While there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either
Language: en
Pages: 273
Pages: 273
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-08 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
The Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál serves as a representation of early pagan beliefs or myths and as a myth itself; the poem performs both of these functions, act
Language: en
Pages: 314
Pages: 314
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-02 - Publisher: Routledge
This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. The contributors examine both eddic and skaldic poems and consider the
