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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Hackett Classics) (edizione 2015)di Jackson Crawford (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaThe Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Hackett Classics) di Jackson Crawford (Translator)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Hollander's translation is virtually unreadable without a dictionary in the other hand and an enormous patience. Will come back to this again with another translation. ( ) An interesting translation of these famous poems from an insightful and erudite translator. An introduction and notes beginning each chapter explain the various poems context and the translation choices the author makes, offering an added layer of depth. I listened to part of this as an audiobook narrated by the author, Jackson Crawford, and found his delivery engaging and nuanced. While I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this book as anyone’s first foray into Norse mythology, it is written in an easily accessible style that would be useful for beginners. [This rating and review refers to the Crawford translation.] The newest Edda in my collection, and very readable. Good introductions to the various poems, and while he's tried to keep the poetry intact, it reads more like modern free verse than medieval chant. Some of his modern word choices raise the eyebrows - "cows" for "cattle", "slobber" for "froth". nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
'The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc. Jackson Crawford's modern versions of these poems are authoritative and fluent and often very gripping. With their individual headnotes and complementary general introduction, they supply today's readers with most of what they need to know in order to understand and appreciate the beliefs, motivations, and values of the Vikings.' (Dick Ringler, Professor Emeritus of English and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison). Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)839.61Literature German and related languages Other Germanic literatures Old Norse, Old Icelandic, Icelandic, Faroese literatures Old Norse poetryClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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