The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems Maria Sibylla Merian

Maria Sibylla Merian

Fletcher Henderson

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The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems Maria Sibylla MerianThe vibrant Old Norse poems in this collection, which may have been brought together as early as the thirteenth century, authentically capture the ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen. In addition, their images of a mythical world profoundly influenced latter day storytellers as Richard Wagner and J. R. R. Tolkien. Known as the "Lays of the Gods," these mythological poems include the Voluspo, one of the broadest conceptions of the world's creation