The Poetic Edda - Illustrated: The Professor's Bookshelf #2
TOLKIEN'S BOOKSHELF #2: THE POETIC EDDA The Poetic Edda, also known as The Elder Edda, is a collection of thirty-four Icelandic poems, interwoven with prose, dating from the 9th century to the 12th. J. R. R. Tolkien readily acknowledged his debt to this source. He was sixteen years old when the Viking Club of London published this beautifully illustrated translation by Olive Bray. Readers of Tolkien's work will easily spot his inspirations - the names of the dwarves in The Hobbit; riddle games; Mirkwood; the Paths of the Dead; an underworld creature being tricked into remaining above-ground until dawn, when sunlight turns him to stone; differ…
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Weitere Autoren: Collingwood, William Gershom (Illustr.) / Bray, Olive (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-9875001-3-7
- EAN: 9780987500137
- Produktnummer: 34390988
- Verlag: Quillpen Pty Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.2 cm 576 g
- Auflage: Revised, New, I
- Reihenbandnummer: 2
- Gewicht: 576
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