Elder Edda (Bray Translation)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Children's Non-fiction

Authors: Sæmund Sigfusson In Year : 1908

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Elder Edda (Bray Translation)

Introduction, Pt. 01 (General)
Introduction, Pt. 02 (The Sayings of Grimnir)
Introduction, Pt. 03 (The Wisdom of All-Wise)
Introduction, Pt. 04 (The Words of the Mighty Weaver)
Introduction, Pt. 05 (The Words of Odin, the High One)
Introduction, Pt. 06 (The Lay of Hymir)
Introduction, Pt. 07 (The Lay of Thrym)
Introduction, Pt. 08 (The Story of Skirnir)
Introduction, Pt. 09 (Day-Spring and Menglöd)
Introduction, Pt. 10 (Greybeard & Thor)
Introduction, Pt. 11 (The Song of Rig)
Introduction, Pt. 12 (The Lay of Hyndla)
Introduction, Pt. 13 (Baldr's Dreams)
Introduction, Pt. 14 (Loki's Mocking)
Introduction, Pt. 15 (The Soothsaying of the Vala)
I. The Sayings of Grimnir
II. The Wisdom of All-Wise
III. The Words of the Mighty Weaver
IV. The Words of Odin, the High One
V. The Lay of Hymir
VI. The Lay of Thrym
VII. The Story of Skirnir
VIII. Day-Spring and Menglöd
IX. Greybeard & Thor
X. The Song of Rig
XI. The Vala's Shorter Soothsaying
XII. The Lay of Hyndla
XIII. Baldr's Dreams
XIV. Loki's Mocking
XV. Fragments From Snorri's Edda
XVI. The Soothsaying of the Vala

The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems dating from the thirteenth century CE. Though no two translators or editors seem to agree on precisely which poems should be included in this collection, the Elder Edda is the most important source for Norse mythology and legends of northern European heroes. The later "Younger" or Prose Edda, gathered or transcribed by Snorri Sturluson in about 1220 CE, is the other such source, largely drawing on and even directly quoting from the poetic material of the Elder Edda. Even the uninitiated reader of the Eddas may find them familiar in sound, rhythm, and content because of their considerable influence on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and his Middle Earth fantasies. Though the Bray edition is entitled "The Elder or Poetic Edda, commonly known as Sæmund's Edda," even at the time of its 1908 publication no scholar still believed that the twelfth-century Icelandic scholar Sæmundur Sigfússon had anything to do with the Poetic Edda; whoever actually compiled and transcribed these old oral myths is unknown to modern scholarship. This recording is of Part I (Mythological Poems), including elegant introductory material by translator and scholar Olive Bray. It does not include the Icelandic of the facing pages in this parallel bilingual edition. ( Expatriate)