The first section, the Prologue, describes the Norse Gods as. The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson: Tales from Norse Mythology, Volumes 1178-1241 From inside the book What people are saying - Write a review Other editions. Edda means poetic art, and Sturluson's guidebook for Icelandic poets has been a timeless inspiration for generations of writers around the world, including Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien. The Prose Edda, coupled with the Poetic Edda, comprises the majority of Scandinavian mythology. The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology.
Iceland's great literary genius, Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), combined oral traditions, genealogical records, and old songs to immortalize his country's glorious past. The wellspring of modern knowledge of Norse mythology, these sagas preserved the Vikings' narrative style from an invading European influence.
They also depict the comic and disastrous results of ambition, passion, and destiny. Resounding with a poetic instinct for the picturesque, the dramatic, and the human, they form vivid portraits of the characters' personalities. Spanning the dawn of the world's creation to its fiery destruction, these gripping Norse legends chronicle the triumphs and tragedies of a lost era. Gods and giants bestride these ancient tales, in which warrior queens and noble heroes battle with elves, dwarves, and fearsome monsters. The Poetic Edda Old Norse-speaking poets have left us countless valuable clues regarding their religious perspective, but the collection of poems known today as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda contains the most mythologically rich and thorough of these.
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