What better way to get to know the Vikings than by starting with the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda, Voluspa . I will post two stanzas from Voluspa every so often, in the same post.
Voluspa tells the story of the world's creation and its end as related by a volva ,Norse seeress, to Odin, major god in Norse mythology and ruler of Asgard.
The Voluspa is one of the most important primary sources for the study of Norse mythology. It is found in the Icelandic manuscript thought to have been written in the 1270's, Codex Regius and in one of the few medieval Norse manuscripts of which the author is known, Hauksbok by Haukr Erlendsson and many of its stanzas are quoted or paraphrased by the Icelandic historian, poet and politician, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.
Voluspa consists of approximately 60 alliterative verses known as a fornyroislag stanzas. In Sophus Bugge;s, a 19th century Norwegian philologist and linguist, edition of the Hauksbok version has 59 stanzas while the Codex Regius version has 62 stanzas. Each manuscript contains stanzas not found in the other manuscript. Bugge's normalized version contains 66 stanzas.
Voluspa tells the story of the world's creation and its end as related by a volva ,Norse seeress, to Odin, major god in Norse mythology and ruler of Asgard.
The Voluspa is one of the most important primary sources for the study of Norse mythology. It is found in the Icelandic manuscript thought to have been written in the 1270's, Codex Regius and in one of the few medieval Norse manuscripts of which the author is known, Hauksbok by Haukr Erlendsson and many of its stanzas are quoted or paraphrased by the Icelandic historian, poet and politician, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.
Voluspa consists of approximately 60 alliterative verses known as a fornyroislag stanzas. In Sophus Bugge;s, a 19th century Norwegian philologist and linguist, edition of the Hauksbok version has 59 stanzas while the Codex Regius version has 62 stanzas. Each manuscript contains stanzas not found in the other manuscript. Bugge's normalized version contains 66 stanzas.
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