In Libreria
Sinossi
A cura di Piergiuseppe Scardigli
Anonima, approdata sulla pergamena alla fine del XIII secolo dopo un periodo imprecisabile di tradizione orale, la raccolta del Canzoniere eddico narra eventi divini e umani, miti ed eroi dell’antica Islanda. La rivali-tà, l’inganno, la vendetta, la sofferenza, l’eroismo, l’ineluttabilità del destino sono i temi ricorrenti che ne evidenziano il carattere formativo-didascalico. Poesia sempre rinata grazie all’attività di cantori che improvvisavano davanti all’uditorio, quello che troviamo in queste pagine è il prodotto ultimo di una tradizione da secoli in cammino, che aveva accompagnato decine di generazioni di uomini nelle loro migrazioni.
- ISBN: 8811366429
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 400
- Data di uscita: 11-03-2004
Recensioni
PLEASE NOTE: Due to poor organization of translations on this website, I must note that this is a review of Andy Orchard's translation of the "Poetic Edda", which he has titled "The Elder Edda: A Book of Viking Lore". Being familiar with Andy Orchard's handbook on Norse mythology ("Dictionary of Nor Leggi tutto
famous for being one of the earliest plagiarisms of professor Tolkien's LotR.
I have been helping my Icelandic colleagues put together LARA versions of Old Norse poems from the Edda, which gave me the opportunity to appreciate a few of them in the original; Völuspá and Hávamál were indeed quite magnificent. When I remembered we had this book lying on the shelf, I thought I sh Leggi tutto
"Wits are needful for someone who travels widely,anything will do at home;he becomes a laughing-stock, the man who knows nothingand sits among the wise." - Hávamál Arguably the greatest mythological masterpiece human civilisation has achieved, in my mind. But I'm biased for a variety of reasons; from Leggi tutto
Based on my limited knowledge, Dr Crawford seems to have done an excellent job with the material. An important read for anyone interested in primary sources on Norse mythology. The stories themselves are long on plot, short on character development.
The Poetic Edda is not a book you read from beginning to end like a novel. The Poetic Edda contains 35 poems, some of which are very complicated. I usually read and study one or a few poems at a time, put the book aside, and then get back to it later. But the more times I read the poems, the more I
Then Brynhild laughed - all the hall resounded - / just one time with all her heart: / 'Well may you enjoy the lands and followers / now you've brought the brave prince to his death' Collected in the 13th century in the Codex Regius, the body of poetry here straddles Old Norse myth and heroic poetry Leggi tutto
Reading this Edda is interesting because it's a retrofitting of Norse mythology that, to what would be the delight of the original authors I'm sure, somehow became the accepted source on actual Norse mythology. It's fascinating from a historiographic perspective as well that of an historian. One thin Leggi tutto
Jackson Crawford's translation reads like Lattimore's translation of Homer; both of them sound overly literal at times, but in each case the original shines through. The poems here often read like fragments -- sometimes they are exactly that, fragments -- which again enhances the feeling that you're Leggi tutto
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