Cover of The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics)

Book 1999

The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics)

3 readers

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Language
English
Published
1999
  • Norse Mythology
  • Translations into English
  • Old Norse poetry
  • Poetry
  • Edda saemundar
  • Eddas
  • Long Now Manual for Civilization

The Seeress's Prophecy (Voluspa), composed mainly in the fornyrdislag meter, is recited by a seeress who can remember before the beginning of the world and who can see as far ahead as after Ragnarok-the Doom of the Gods.