The quotes in The Poetic Edda and Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes also contain the runic "originals. Crawford's favourite passage from the book. Crawford that best exemplifies the text to follow or Dr. 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. Here it is at last (Odin be praised) and well worth the wait. Jackson Crawfords modern versions of these poems are authoritative and fluent and. The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. The Poetic Edda features a medallion of the wolf Fenrir, The Saga of the Volsungs a medallion of the dragon/serpent Fafnir, and Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes a medallion of a bear.Įach volume in the set begins with a phrase hand-written by Dr. The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern. Crawford's Hackett Publishing books, The Poetic Edda (2015), The Saga of the Volsungs (2017), and Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes (2021) in a beautifully designed, hand-numbered, and hand-crafted slipcase box.Įach book in the set features smyth-sewn hardcover bindings with new custom artwork for the front covers. The poems are presenting advice for living, proper conduct and. This limited-edition set collects three of Dr. This book is a translation of Hvaml, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. Jackson Crawford has delighted readers with his English-language translations of Old Norse sagas and poems that tell the tales of Odin, Thor, Loki, dragon-slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, Hrólf Kraki, and many more. Since the 2015 publication of The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes, Old Norse specialist Dr.
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