Edda

The Edda is a collection of Norse myths, written in the 13th century by a dude named Snorri. It's where we got most of our knowledge of Norse mythology today, and it's wicked awesome. I learned, for instance, that your legs may hump each other and produce a child while you're asleep, which is someth Leggi tutto

Professionally speaking, the gods of the Norse pantheon have been good for the Marvel Comics publishing company. Marvel has been publishing Thor comic books, quite successfully, since the 1960’s. More recently, in this era of superhero blockbuster movies, Norse-myth characters like Thor, Odin, Loki, Leggi tutto

It’s sort of strange to give a review of a book like this – as if I can sit here and complain that Thor’s character feels underdeveloped, or that I didn’t understand Odin’s motivation for acting as he did. It is, after all, from the 13th century, written by someone we might characterize as an Icelan Leggi tutto

Snorri Sturluson rédigea cette Edda (ces vieilles légendes norroises) au début du XIIIe siècle, alors que son pays, l’Islande, était depuis longtemps convertie au christianisme. Snorri aborde donc de biais ce panorama du polythéisme scandinave. En effet, son livre est avant tout un traité de poétiqu Leggi tutto

Written in the early 1200s by the Icelandic scholar, poet and civic leader Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), and one of the major works of Icelandic and general medieval literature, The Prose Edda is one of the two key original sources for the study of the mythology of the proto-Germanic peoples of nort Leggi tutto