The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes [Audiobook] download free by Jackson Crawford
- Listen audiobook: The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- Author: Jackson Crawford
- Release date: 2015/8/22
- Publisher: HACKETT PUBLISHING CO, INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781624663567
- Rating: 7.31 of 10
- Votes: 280
- Review by: Gordon Thatcher
- Review rating: 8.53 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/18
- Duration: 4H54M26S in 256 kbps (78.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Shorten, WMA Lossless, WMA, WAV, MP4, MPEG4, FLAC, MP3 (compression TBZ, RAR, ZIP, TAR.BZ2)
- Total pages original book: 392
- Includes a PDF summary of 31 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M56S (6.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: '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 13th-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
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: General, Poetry By Individual Poets, Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets, Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval, Poetry Books
- Download servers: Dropbox, Uploaded, MegaCloud, BitShare, FreakShare. Compressed in TBZ, RAR, ZIP, TAR.BZ2
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 22.77 USD
- Dimensions: 140x216x19.05mm
- Weight: 454g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Cambridge, MA, United States
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