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...The V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ranslated by William M... .................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA ......................................................................... ...ratic Ring Cycle is in these. Volsunga Saga, with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies Originally written in I... ...have been preserved in the collection of Norse poetry known as the “Poetic Edda.” The text of this edition is based on that published as The Story of ... ...nd placed them upon a high level that is all their own. (8) From the prose Edda the following all too brief statement of the salient points of Norse b... ...ides of their descent people inherited special poetic power. Some of older Eddaic fragments attest the great reach and deep overpowering strength of i... ...ession and most noble form. The oldest shape in which we have it is in the Eddaic poems, some of which date from unnumbered generations before the tim... ...powerful foreign potentate. All the other actors are mythic-heroic. Of the Eddaic songs only fragments now re- main, but ere they perished there arose... ... metrical version of the greater portion of it. These Songs from the Elder Edda we will now briefly com- pare with the prose of the V olsung Story , p...

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...The 13th century Icelandic Völsungasaga is usually read by people studying the Poetic Edda or Wagner's Ring - which obscures the fact it is a much better story than practically everything derived from it. A riddle-telling dragon, a broken sword, a hooded mysterious wanderer - cannibalism, incest, mutilation, a...

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...An encyclopedia of Norse mythology based on the Project Gutenberg edition of Myths of the Norseman from the Eddas and Sagas by H.A.Guerber, with illustrations from Wikimedia Commons....

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...reli- gious character: that is what Norse critics call the Elder or Poetic Edda. Edda, a word of uncertain etymology, is thought to signify Ancestress... ...rspicuous clear work, pleasant reading still: this is the Younger or Prose Edda. By these and the numerous other Sagas, mostly Icelandic, with the com... ...e must not forget; it will explain, a little, the confusion of these Norse Eddas. They are not one coher- ent System of Thought; but properly the summ... ...ld Norse Belief which is flung out for us, in one level of distance in the Edda, like a picture painted on the same canvas, does not at all stand so i... ... after another, till it got to the full final shape we see it under in the Edda, no man will now ever know: its Councils of Trebizond, Councils of Tre... ...homas Carlyle to say about itself, still less to sing. Among those shadowy Edda matters, amid all that fantas- tic congeries of assertions, and tradit... ...concern us much. Some wild Prophecies we have, as the Voluspa in the Elder Edda; of a rapt, earnest, sibylline sort. But they were comparatively an id...

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... to us in five different forms. The first of these is the poetic or older “Edda,” also called Saemund’s “Edda,” as it was assigned to the celebrated I... ...egfried story is the so-called “V olsungasaga”, a prose paraphrase of the “Edda” songs. The MS. dates from the beginning of the thirteenth century, bu... ... traced back to Wodan. Although a secondary source, as it is based on the “Edda,” the Volsungasaga is nevertheless of great importance, since it sup- ... ... us with the contents of the missing songs. The third source is the prose “Edda”, sometimes called the “Snorra Edda”, after the famous Icelander Snorr... ...to whom it was ascribed. The author was ac- quainted with both the poetic “Edda” and the “V olsungasaga”, and follows these accounts closely. The youn... ... and the “V olsungasaga”, and follows these accounts closely. The younger “Edda” is not really a tale, but a book of poetics; it relates, however, the... ...the transition from heathendom to the Christian faith. It is based on the “Edda” and the “Volsungasaga”, and is therefore of minor importance as a sou... ...d lies in bed, but is deterred by the latter’s penetrating * In the prose “Edda,” in the water which drips from Gudrun’s hair. 14 The Nibelungenlied ... ... promise, and burns the castle with Atli and all his dead retainers. Other Edda songs relate the further adventures of Gudrun, but they do not concern...

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...what it had been.’ ‘Miss Headworth came when I was four or five years old. Edda, as we used to call her in May’s language, was the first person who ga... ... I remember in after times being silenced for saying, “not so pretty as my Edda.” I was extremely fond of her, enough to have my small jealousy excite... ...s in the passage when Mark entered, and his exclamation instantly was ‘Oh, Edda, dear old Edda! You aren’t a bit altered!’ and he put his head under h... ...as just behind. We rose up—she did not know him at once, but he just said “Edda, my little Edda, sweeter than ever, I knew you at once,” or something ... ... ‘On the whole it is well, but she might have done better to resemble you, Edda,’ he said caressingly; ‘but perhaps that would have been too much for ... ...o his sisters, was eagerly examining Margaret whether she remembered their Edda; but she had been only three years old at the time of the adventures i... ... ‘I think he is very glad.’ Mr. Egremont laughed. ‘You are a simple woman, Edda! The pose of virtuous hero was to have been full compensa- tion for al... ...r relations were reversed. ‘Ha! Well, you certainly are a pretty creature, Edda,’ he said graciously. ‘You’ll pass muster! You want nothing but style.... ...others. They are at Mr. Condamine’s, I came last night—by way of Lescombe. Edda, dear, it is all right! Oh, I forgot you did not know! There was no se...

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...w that it was a Sun. So likewise a day comes when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo- Jumbo and Ind...

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...pro- cessions. “Salt!” said the Deacon, joyfully. “Y ou’re dreffle late, T edda.” “Any—any place to cramp the coupe?” Tedda panted. “It weighs turr’bl... ...ilosopher with the appetite of a shark and the manners of an archbishop. T edda Gabler was a new “trade,” with a reputation for vice which was really ... ...n’t that been your experience, madam?” This last remark was addressed to T edda; and any one could see with half an eye that poor, old anxious, fidget... ... “‘Course I’ve no prejudice against a top-buggy s’ long’s I can see it,” T edda went on quickly. “It’s ha’f-seein’ the pesky thing bobbin’ an’ balancn... ...d it’s if there was some feelin’ to my maouth.” “Hain’t ye got any, Miss T edda?” said T uck, who has a mouth like velvet, and knows it. “Might ‘a’ ha... ...ially with my tail snipped off the way ’tis,- but I want you all to know T edda’s quit fightin’ in harness or out of it, ‘cep’ when there’s a born foo... ...’ me, madam?” said the yellow horse. “Ef the shoe fits, clinch it,” said T edda, snorting. “I named no names, though, to be sure, some folks are mean ... ...t was the crown of horsely knowledge. “What’s the use o’ talk in’?” said T edda Gabler, scornfully. “What kin ye do?” “I rely on my simple rights—the ... ...’ man.” “‘Must ha’ had a heap o’ whips broke over yer yaller back,” said T edda. “Hev ye found it paid any?” “Sorrer has been my portion since the day...

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...s knew and described the apple- tree as a botanist. According to the prose Edda,* “Iduna keeps in a box the apples which the gods, when they feel old...

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...now that it was a Sun. So likewise a day comes when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo Jumbo and In...