Edda means "poetic art," and Sturluson's guidebook for Icelandic poets has been a timeless inspiration for generations of writers around the world, including Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien.
Iceland's great literary genius, Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241), combined oral traditions, genealogical records, and old songs to immortalize his country's glorious past. The wellspring of modern knowledge of Norse mythology, these sagas preserved the Vikings' narrative style from an invading European influence. They also depict the comic and disastrous results of ambition, passion, and destiny. Resounding with a poetic instinct for the picturesque, the dramatic, and the human, they form vivid portraits of the characters' personalities. Spanning the dawn of the world's creation to its fiery destruction, these gripping Norse legends chronicle the triumphs and tragedies of a lost era. He is the translator of The Saga of the Volsungs and The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki for Penguin Classics.Gods and giants bestride these ancient tales, in which warrior queens and noble heroes battle with elves, dwarves, and fearsome monsters. Jesse Byock is a professor of Icelandic and Old Norse studies at UCLA. He rose to become Iceland's richest and, for a time, most powerful leader. The Prose Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), is one of the main sources of Norse mythology in Icelandic literature. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Ībout the Author Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241) was the son of an upstart Icelandic chieftain. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
Byock (Editor, Translator, Introduction) 2,042 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 15.89 Other new, used and collectible from 2. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics) Paperback Illustrated, Januby Snorri Sturluson (Author), Jesse L. This robust new translation captures the magisterial sweep and startling psychological complexity of the Old Icelandic original. Its time scale spans the eons from the world's creation to its violent end.
Its gods live with the tragic knowledge of their own impending destruction in the cataclysmic battle of Ragnarok. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman heroes and indomitable warrior queens. About the Book One of the great storybooks of the middle ages: a master storyteller from the thirteenth century recounts classic tales of Icelandic mythology along with a lesson to young poets on the importance of learning, respecting, and continuing traditional Icelandic poetic styles.īook Synopsis Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology.
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