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
The Poetic Edda is the great-grandmother of Icelandic literature. It takes us back to a poetic time when civilisation was young and rough, when gods, elves, giants, dwarves, and men shared the same world, a time before Christianity but preserved by Christian missionaries, the time of Norse myths and Leggi tutto
famous for being one of the earliest plagiarisms of professor Tolkien's LotR.
Over the last two and a half years, it has been my great pleasure to help my talented Icelandic colleagues use the LARA platform to put together a multimedia edition of the Poetic Edda. Three poems - Völuspá , Hávamál and Lokasenna - have already been posted separately, and some people wi
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
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
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.
One of the first book I truly loved was an illustrated collection of Greek myths, told for children. Even in a simplified and sanitized version, the strangeness of an ancient mythology fascinated my young mind. Unlike stories written for children—or even for young adults—these myths were full of mor Leggi tutto
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