The Poetic Edda

Jeramy Dodds, Jeramy Dodds

• Verlag: Coach House Books
• Jahr: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781770563858
• Thema: Literature
• Thema: Poetry

"This is a wonderful new edition of the Poetic Edda. It captures the language, vitality, and rhythms of the original."—Jesse Byock, PhD, UCLA

Gods, giants, the undead, dwarves, Valkyries, heroes, kidnapping, dragons, and a giant wolf are just some of the stars in these Norse tales. Committed to vellum in Iceland around 1270, The Poetic Edda has compelled the likes of Richard Wagner, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jorges Luis Borges, and W.H. Auden. Jeramy Dodds transmits the Old Icelandic text into English without chipping the patina of the original.

Jeramy Dodds 's Crabwise to the Hounds was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won the Trillium Book Award for poetry.

AN ANNOTATED INDEX OF NAMES

Page numbers refer to print edition.

Ægir, Sea Jotun/sea god: 74, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 107, 129

Æsir, the main pantheon of gods: 14, 15, 18, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 54, 56, 62, 64, 65, 68, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77, 78, 81, 86, 90, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 105, 107, 108, 109, 120, 121, 123, 163, 164, 171, 177, 180, 221, 246, 248, 259

Æsir referred to as:

Slaughter Gods: 34

Triumph Gods: 31, 32, 74, 96, 172

Powers: 31, 45, 54, 58, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 102, 120, 122, 123, 180, 214

Agnar (1), brother of Geirrod: 67

Agnar (2), son of Geirrod: 67, 68, 75

Agnar (3), opponent of Helmet-Gunnar: 178

Ai, a Dwarf: 27

Ailed Eye, a name for Odin: 74

Alf (1), a Dwarf: 28

Alf (2), son of Hunding: 127, 145

Alf (3), son of Hrodmar: 141

Alf (4), son of Hjalprek: 153

Alf the Old (1), son of Hring and Hogni: 133

Alf the Old (2), son of Ulf: 256, 257

Alfheim, ‘Elf Home,’ one of the nine worlds, home to the Light Elves: 13

Alfhild...

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Notice
• Epigraph
• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION
• A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION
• MYTHOLOGICAL POEMS
• the volva’s prophecy
• the high one’s sayings
• vafthrudnir’s sayings
• grimnir’s sayings
• skirnir’s journey
• harbard’s poem
• hymir’s lay
• loki’s flyting
• thrym’s lay
• volund’s lay
• alvis’s sayings
• HEROIC POEMS
• the first lay of helgi hundingsbani
• helgi hjorvardsson’s lay
• the second lay of helgi hundingsbani
• of sinfjotli’s death
• gripir’s prophecy
• regin’s lay
• fafnir’s lay
• sigrdrifa’s lay
• fragment of sigurd’s lay
• the first lay of gudrun
• sigurd’s short lay
• brynhild’s hel ride
• the slaying of the niflungs
• the second lay of gudrun
• the third lay of gudrun
• oddrun’s dirge
• atli’s lay
• atli’s greenlandic lay
• gudrun’s whetting
• hamdir’s lay
• POEMS NOT IN THE CODEX REGIUS
• baldr’s dreams
• rig’s list
• hyndla’s poem
• grotti’s song
• an annotated index of names
• about the translator
• acknowledgments
• Copyright Notice