Icelandic Poetry Collection
Monday, August 22nd, 2011
The Poem “Attic Music” Read By The Poet & Novelist Robert Rowe
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The Poetic Edda $14.25 The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early Christian times. Collected by an unidentified Icelan… |
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Bard of Iceland: Jónas Hallgrímsson, Poet and Scientist $39.60 Bard of Iceland makes available for the first time in any language other than Icelandic an extensive selection of works by Jónas HallgrÃmsson (1807–1845), the most important poet of modern Iceland. Jónas was also Iceland’s first professionally trained geologist and an active contributor in a number of other scientific fields: geography, botany, zoology, and archaeology. He pla… |
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Seven Icelandic Short Stories $10.93 Edited by ??sgeir P??tursson and Steingr??mur J. ??orsteinsson… |
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1220s Books (Study Guide): Prose Edda, Lancelot-Grail, Song of the Albigensian Crusade, Fagrskinna, Diu Crone $14.14 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Prose Edda, Lancelot-Grail, Song of the Albigensian Crusade, Fagrskinna, Diu Crône, L’histoire de Guillaume le Marechal, Mu’jam Al-Buldan. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri’s Edda (Icelandic: ) or simply Edda, is an Old Norse language Icelandic collection of four sections interspersed with excerpts from earlier skaldic and Eddic poetry containing tales from Norse mythology. The work is often assumed to be written by the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around the year 1220. The Prose Edda begins with a euhemerized Prologue followed by three distinct books: Gylfaginning (consisting of around 20,000 words), Skáldskaparmál (around 50,000 words) and Háttatal (around 20,000 words). Seven manuscripts, dating from around 1300 to around 1600, have independent textual value. The purpose of the collection was to enable Icelandic poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, and to grasp the meaning behind the many kennings that were used in skaldic poetry. The Prose Edda was originally referred to as simply the Edda, but was later called the Prose Edda to distinguish it from the Poetic Edda, a collection of anonymous poetry from earlier traditional sources compiled around the same time as the Prose Edda in 13th century Iceland. The Prose Edda is related to the Poetic Edda in that the Prose Edda cites various poems collected in the Poetic Edda as sources. The assumption that Snorri Sturluson is responsible for writing the Prose Edda is largely based on the following paragraph from a portion of Codex Upsaliensis, an early 14th century manuscript containing the Prose Edda: This book is called Edda. Snorri Sturluson compiled it in the way that it is arranged here. |
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1220s Books: Prose Edda $15.32 Used – Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri’s Edda (Icelandic: ) or simply Edda, is an Old Norse language Icelandic collection of four sections interspersed with excerpts from earlier skaldic and Eddic poetry containing tales from Norse mythology. The work is often assumed to be written by the |
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1220s Books: Prose Edda $26.16 New – Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri’s Edda (Icelandic: ) or simply Edda, is an Old Norse language Icelandic collection of four sections interspersed with excerpts from earlier skaldic and Eddic poetry containing tales from Norse mythology. The work is often assumed to be written by the I |
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Articles on Icelandic Literature, Including: Kenning, Sagas of Icelanders, Poetic Edda, List of Kennings, Prose Edda, Alliterative Verse, Skald, Saga, R Mur, Old Norse Poetry, Arnamagn an Manuscript Collection, Passion Hymns $12.93 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domai |
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Articles on Icelandic Literature, Including: Kenning, Sagas of Icelanders, Poetic Edda, List of Kennings, Prose Edda, Alliterative Verse, Skald, Saga, R Mur, Old Norse Poetry, Arnamagn an Manuscript Collection, Passion Hymns $17.34 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domai |
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Eddic Poetry: Poetic Edda $16.97 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 197. Not illustrated. Chapters: Poetic Edda. Excerpt: The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends. Codex Regius was written in the 13th cen |
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Eddic Poetry: Poetic Edda $15.23 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 197. Not illustrated. Chapters: Poetic Edda. Excerpt: The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends. Codex Regius was written in the 13th ce |
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From the Igloo Confessional: A Novel of Poetry $0.99 Used – Infused with eclectically fresh and wanderlust poetic lines, “From the Igloo Confessional” is a novel of poetry from author/artist Stefan Lowry. Brimming with stark and rich word play, this all new collection conveys dark haunting undertones in a symphony of layers, as each piece beckons with ethereal stories drenched in free verse. Derived as an idea from the Icelandic sagas, “From the Igloo Confessional” is a surrounding narrative where Adam and Fjola find self discovery while careenin |
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From the Igloo Confessional: A Novel of Poetry $18.81 New – Infused with eclectically fresh and wanderlust poetic lines, “From the Igloo Confessional” is a novel of poetry from author/artist Stefan Lowry. Brimming with stark and rich word play, this all new collection conveys dark haunting undertones in a symphony of layers, as each piece beckons with ethereal stories drenched in free verse. Derived as an idea from the Icelandic sagas, “From the Igloo Confessional” is a surrounding narrative where Adam and Fjola find self discovery while careening |
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From the Igloo Confessional: A Novel of Poetry $9.75 Used – Infused with eclectically fresh and wanderlust poetic lines, “From the Igloo Confessional” is a novel of poetry from author/artist Stefan Lowry. Brimming with stark and rich word play, this all new collection conveys dark haunting undertones in a symphony of layers, as each piece beckons with ethereal stories drenched in free verse. Derived as an idea from the Icelandic sagas, “From the Igloo Confessional” is a surrounding narrative where Adam and Fjola find self discovery while careenin |
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From the Igloo Confessional: A Novel of Poetry $14.95 Infused with eclectically fresh and wanderlust poetic lines, From the Igloo Confessional is a novel of poetry from author/artist Stefan Lowry. Brimming with stark and rich word play, this all new collection conveys dark haunting undertones in a symphony of layers, as each piece beckons with ethereal stories drenched in free verse. Derived as an idea from the Icelandic sagas, From the Igloo Confessional is a surrounding narrative where Adam and Fjola find self discovery while careening through place and time. Come along on an imaginative journey where a Starry Hour prevails, a Fire in Moscow glows, and Chiaroscuro awaits. Soar over waters in Ride the Ocean Bells. Stefan has crafted a storyline of deep expression and feeling, from To Catch Mona Lisa, to Glories of the Pigeons, Dutchman, and Symbiosis. From the Igloo Confessional is an epic of poetry to be experienced over and over again. |
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From the Igloo Confessional: A Novel of Poetry $5.37 Infused with eclectically fresh and wanderlust poetic lines, From the Igloo Confessional is a novel of poetry from author/artist Stefan Lowry. Brimming with stark and rich word play, this all new collection conveys dark haunting undertones in a symphony of layers, as each piece beckons with ethereal stories drenched in free verse. Derived as an idea from the Icelandic sagas, From the Igloo Confessional is a surrounding narrative where Adam and Fjola find self discovery while careening through place and time. Come along on an imaginative journey where a “Starry Hour” prevails, a “Fire in Moscow” glows, and “Chiaroscuro” awaits. Soar over waters in “Ride the Ocean Bells”. Stefan has crafted a storyline of deep expression and feeling, from “To Catch Mona Lisa”, to “Glories of the Pigeons”, “Dutchman”, and “Symbiosis”. From the Igloo Confessional is an epic of poetry to be experienced over and over again. |
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Icelandic Literature, Including: Kenning, Sagas of Icelanders, Poetic Edda, List of Kennings, Prose Edda, Alliterative Verse, Skald, Saga, R Mur, Old Norse Poetry, Arnamagn an Manuscript Collection, Passion Hymns, Gu R N Eva M Nervud Ttir, Galdrab $17.34 New – Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. T |
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Icelandic Literature: Kenning, List of Kennings, Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Sagas of Icelanders, Alliterative Verse, Stjorn, Skald $16.97 Used – Chapters: Kenning, List of Kennings, Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Sagas of Icelanders, Alliterative Verse, Stjorn, Skald, Old Icelandic Homily Book, Rimur, Jon Magnusson, Passion Hymns, Arnamagnaean Manuscript Collection, Old Norse Poetry, Atom Poets, Old Norwegian Homily Book, Galdrabok, Vigdis Grimsdottir, Nitida Saga, Guorun Eva Minervudottir, Prologue, Danish Royal Library, Ms Nks 1867 4 . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 116. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial |
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Music of Failure $16.95 “The ground bass is failure; America is the key signature; Pauline Bardal is the lyrical tune that sings at the center; Minneota, Minnesota, is the staff on which the tunes are written.” So begins the masterful title piece from Bill Holm’s first book of essays, The Music of Failure. This collection introduced to many the singular vision and voice of literary giant Bill Holm, a writer who had traveled well and widely but came back to his hometown of Minneota—the town of his immigrant Icelandic ancestors—as, in his words, “for all practical purposes a failure.” What emerges from these pages, and from Holm’s cherished writings over the next two and a half decades, is anything but failure. From his ruminations on life in Minneota, family history, and the “horizontal grandeur” of the Midwestern prairie to a poetry-reading tour of Minnesota nursing homes and an account of a naked man eating lilacs out of his garden, The Music of Failure is a lyrical and surprising compilation that finds Holm mining the stories and places that captivated him and continue to enthrall his many readers. This 25th anniversary edition includes poignant portraits of Holm and the history of The Music of Failure by Jim Heynen and David Pichaske, along with an essay Holm requested be added to this new edition, “Is Minnesota in America Yet?” With beautiful black-and-white photographs by Tom Guttormsson, The Music of Failure is Bill Holm at both his early and quintessential best, an inimitable and much-missed writer who illuminates our private and common lives through both our quiet victories and our sublime failures. |
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Old Norse Literature $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Poetic Edda, Edda, Prose Edda, Viking Society for Northern Research, Stjórn, Skald, Old Icelandic Homily Book, Saga, Þáttr, Strengleikar, Old Norse Poetry, Norrœna Society, Old Norwegian Homily Book, Viking Club, Prologue, Old Norse Literature. Excerpt: The term Edda (Old Norse Edda , plural Eddur ) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda , both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century. They are the main sources of medieval Norse mythology and skaldic tradition in Iceland. Some of the older poems included may predate the date of their recording by several centuries, establishing continuity with the Viking Age .Etymology There are several theories concerning the origins of the word edda . One theory holds that it is identical to a word that means “great-grandmother” appearing in the Eddic poem Rígsþula. Another theory holds that edda derives from Old Norse óðr , “poetry.” A third, proposed in 1895 by Eiríkr Magnússon, but since discredited, is that it derives from the Icelandic place name Oddi , site of the church and school where students, including Snorri Sturluson , were educated. The Poetic Edda Main article: Poetic Edda The Poetic Edda , also known as Sæmundar Edda or the Elder Edda, is a collection of Old Norse poems from the Icelandic medieval manuscript Codex Regius (‘The King’s Manuscript’). Along with Snorri’s Edda the Poetic Edda is the most important source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends. The first part of the Codex Regius preserves poems that narrate the creation and destruction of the Old Norse mythological world as well as individual myths about gods such as Odin, Thor and Heimdall. The poems in the second part narrate legends about |
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Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide $38.18 In the past few decades, interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a great deal of interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Until the 1980s, however, there was a distinct lack of scholarship in the area, so in 1985, Carol J. Clover and John Lindow brought together some of the most ambitious and distinguished Old Norse scholars to contribute essays for a collection that would finally fill the void of a comprehensive guide to the field.The contributors summarize and comment on scholarly work in the major branches of the field: eddic and skaldic poetry, family and kings’ sagas, courtly writing, and mythology. Taken together, their judicious and well-written essays, each with a full bibliography, make up this vital survey of Old Norse literature in English – a basic reference work that has stimulated much research and helped to open up the field to a wider academic readership.This volume has become an essential text for instructors, and twenty years later, is now being republished as part of the Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (MART) series with a new preface that discusses more recent contributions to the field. |
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Revisiting the Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Heroic Legend $125 Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigurðr; Brynhild the implacable shield-maiden; tragic Gudrun and her children; Attila the Hun (from a Norse perspective!); and greedy King Fróði, whose name lives on in Tolkien’s Frodo. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the poems for students, taking a number of fresh, theoretically-sophisticated and productive approaches to the poetry and its characters. Contributors bring to bear insights generated by comparative study, speech act and feminist theory, queer theory and psychoanalytic theory (among others) to raise new, probing questions about the heroic poetry and its reception. Each essay is accompanied by up-to-date lists of further reading and a contextualisation of the poems or texts discussed in critical history. Drawing on the latest international studies of the poems in their manuscript context, and written by experts in their individual fields, engaging with the texts in their original language and context, but presented with full translations, this companion volume to The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology (Routledge, 2002) is accessible to students and illuminating for experts. Essays also examine the afterlife of the heroic poems in Norse legendary saga, late medieval Icelandic poetry, the nineteenth-century operas of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, and the recently published (posthumous) poem by Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. |
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Some Elizabethan Opinions Of The Poetry And Character Of Ovid $14.98 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:The literary fortunes of the Roman poet Ovid are little short of the marvelous. Accorded among his own people a rank second only to that of Virgil, distinguished for admirable narrative, tender elegy, and for at least one notable experiment in tragedy—the lost Medea, he received even in his own lifetime that striking mixture of praise and censure that has continued to the present.1 Throughout mediaeval literature his influence was potent and pervasive.2 He appears in various ways in Italian, Provengal, Spanish, Bohemian, German, Icelandic, French, and English. He was a main source of inspiration for the first part of the Roman de la ‘For remarks of Seneca and of Quintilian on the character of Ovid, see Teuffel-Schwabe-Warr: Hist, of Roman Lit., I, p. 495. ‘The character and extent of the references to Ovid during the Middle Ages in England may be seen in part by consulting the carefully prepared indexes to the following: (Rolls Series.) Warner, G. F.: Giraldi Cambrensis Opera. VIII vols. Haydon, F. S.: Eulogium Historiarum. Anstey, H.: Munimenta Academica. II vols. Riley, H. T.: Chronica Monasterii S. Albani. Luard, H. R.: Roberti Grosseteste Epistolae. Luard, H. R.: Annales Monastici. Lumby, J. R.: Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden. IX vols. Wright, Th.: Alexandri Neckham de Naturis Rerum Libri Duo. Madden, Sir F.: Matthaei Parisiensis Historia Anglorum. Ill vols. Luard, H. R.: Flores Historiarum. The most extensive collection of mediaevalcitations of Ovid is in Manitius: Beitrdge zur Geschichte des Ovid im Mittelalter. Philologus, Suppl. VII (1899), pp. 721 ff. No study of Ovid in mediaeval literature such as Comparetti’s Virgilio nell media evo has yet appeared. The following references are of value: Bartsch, |
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Steindor Andersen – Rimor CD $9.75 This is a collection of Icelandic epic and proverbs set to musical poetry by Steindor Andersen, one of the top proponents of the rimur form and a previous collaborator with Sigur Ros. The productio… |
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The Poetic Edda $1.99 Used – The collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as the Poetic Edda contains the great narratives of the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods. The mythological poems explore the wisdom of the gods and giants, narrating the adventures of the god Thor against the hostile giants and the gods’ rivalries amongst themselves. The heroic poems trace the exploits of the hero Helgi and his valkyrie bride, the tragic tale of Sigurd and Brynhild |
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The Poetic Edda $9.16 New – Young were the years when Ymir made his settlement, there was no sand nor sea nor cool waves; earth was nowhere nor the sky above, chaos yawned, grass was there nowhere. The sun turns black, earth sinks into the sea, the bright stars vanish from the sky; steam rises up in the conflagration, a high flame plays against heaven itself. Seeress’s Prophecy 3, 57 The collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as the Poetic Edda contains the great narratives of the creation |
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The Poetic Edda $152.2 This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of the major poems, this book yields a variety of powerful and convincing readings. Contributors to the collection are both young scholars and senior figures in the discipline, and are of varying nationalities (American, British, Australian, Scandinavian, and Icelandic), thus ensuring a range of interpretations from different corners of the scholarly community. The new translations included here make available for the first time to English speaking students the intriguing methodologies that are currently developing in Scandinavia. An essential collection of scholarship for any Old Norse course, The Poetic Edda will also be of interest to scholars of Indo-European myth, as well as those who study the theory of myth. |
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The Poetic Edda $1.45 Used – Young were the years when Ymir made his settlement, there was no sand nor sea nor cool waves; earth was nowhere nor the sky above, chaos yawned, grass was there nowhere. The sun turns black, earth sinks into the sea, the bright stars vanish from the sky; steam rises up in the conflagration, a high flame plays against heaven itself. Seeress’s Prophecy 3, 57 The collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as the Poetic Edda contains the great narratives of the creatio |
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The Poetic Edda $29.95 New – Young were the years when Ymir made his settlement, there was no sand nor sea nor cool waves; earth was nowhere nor the sky above, chaos yawned, grass was there nowhere. The sun turns black, earth sinks into the sea, the bright stars vanish from the sky; steam rises up in the conflagration, a high flame plays against heaven itself. Seeress’s Prophecy 3, 57 The collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as the Poetic Edda contains the great narratives of the creation |