"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance,
The Poetic Edda
โ Scribed by Jackson Crawford
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 166 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1624664156
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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