The Poetic Edda by Lee M Hollander

The Poetic Edda by Lee M Hollander

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Features poems collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, and was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars.

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The Poetic Edda by Lee M Hollander

Features poems collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, and was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars.
. . the translation may indeed be regarded as the crowning achievement of a great scholar. * Scandinavian-American Bulletin *

Lee M. Hollander was Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas at Austin and an authority in Nordic language and literature. His translations of the best prose and poetry of the Old North-— among them Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway and The Saga of the Jom'svikings—have also appered under the imprint of the University of Texas Press.

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ISBN 13 9780292764996
ISBN 10 0292764995
Title The Poetic Edda
Author Lee M Hollander
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Texas Press
Year published 1962-01-01
Number of pages 376
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