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" Edda / "
Snorri Sturluson ; translated and edited by Anthony Faulkes.
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BL
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878228
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Edda Snorra Sturlusonar.English.
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| Title & Author
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Edda /\ Snorri Sturluson ; translated and edited by Anthony Faulkes.
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| Edition Statement
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[Reprint edition].
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Charles E. Tuttle,, 1995.
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, ©1987
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| Series Statement
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The Everyman library
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xxvi, 260 pages :: illustration ;; 20 cm.
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0460876163
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: 9780460876162
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| Notes
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"First published in Everyman in 1987" --verso.
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Reprinted with new chronology and synopsis --verso.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiv-xxv) and indexes.
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| Contents
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Prologue -- Gylfaginning -- Skaldskaparmal -- Hattatal.
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| Abstract
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"Over a period of twenty years Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose Edda as a textbook for young poets who wished to praise kings. His work surveys the content, style and metres of traditional Viking poetry and includes a lengthy poem of Snorrie's own, praising the king of Norway. Ironically, Snorri was killed in his own cellar in Iceland in 1241 on the instigation of the king of Norway, as a result of political intrigue. The Edda contains the most extensive account of Norse myths and legends that has survived from the Middle Ages as well as the popular stories of Odin winning back the mead of poetic inspiration and Thor fishing for the Midgard serpent" --
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Mythology, Norse.
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Scalds and scaldic poetry.
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Mythology, Norse.
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Scalds and scaldic poetry.
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| Dewey Classification
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839.68
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PT7312.E5F38 1995
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Snorri Sturluson,1179?-1241.
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Faulkes, Anthony.
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