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A difficult book to rate. I enjoyed the first third of the poems, having to do with the gods and giants, but I suspect this was only because I was already familiar with these myths and could follow along.
The last two-thirds of the poems have to do with the heroic legends that partly inspired Wagner's Ring Cycle. I wish I had read a prose version of this story first as the poetic version(s) was hard to follow. Especially since the story was chopped up among 20 different ...more
A difficult book to rate. I enjoyed the first third of the poems, having to do with the gods and giants, but I suspect this was only because I was already familiar with these myths and could follow along.
The last two-thirds of the poems have to do with the heroic legends that partly inspired Wagner's Ring Cycle. I wish I had read a prose version of this story first as the poetic version(s) was hard to follow. Especially since the story was chopped up among 20 different ...more
Ah, Scandinavians knew what was up when they told their myths. There is so much great stuff in here, from advice and lists to a series of interconnected heroic poems in the middle section of the book. It was also exciting to see where Tolkin got his inspiration from (and some of the names he ripped directly out of "The Poetic Edda" and bestowed upon the dwarves in "The Hobbit"). Dodds did a great job with the translation, it felt both accessible and also preserved the feeling one gets from oral
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Jun 27, 2010
Regina
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