Paul Acker - The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology

The Poetic Edda

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THE POETIC EDDA

Essays on Old Norse Mythology

edited by Paul Acker and Carolyne

Larrington

The Poetic Edda

Essays on Old Norse Mythology

Edited by
Paul Acker and Carolyne Larnngton

First published 2002 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The Poetic Edda : essays on Old Norse mythology / edited by Paul Acker & Carolyne Larrington.

p. cm.

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-65385-5 (pbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-815-31660-2 (hbk)

1. EddasHistory and criticism. 2. Old Norse poetry History and criticism. 3. Mythology, Norse, in literature. I. Acker, Paul. II. Larrington, Carolyne. PT7235.P64 2001

839.61009dc21

2001048509