Poems of the Elder Edda by Unknown, Patricia Terry

Poems of the Elder Edda

Unknown, Patricia Terry

304 pages first pub 1270 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry adventurous informative medium-paced

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The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a uniqu...

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