The Essence of Viking Mythology: Norse Eddas, Sagas & Ballads
Gods, Giants, Heroes, and the Living Legacy of Eddas, Sagas, and BalladsBy Anonymous, Conrad Hjalmar Nordby, Snorri Sturluson, Saemund Sigfusson, Sturla Þórðarson, Hélène Adeline Guerber, Nora Kershaw
Length128h 41m
About this audiobook
The Essence of Viking Mythology: Norse Eddas, Sagas & Ballads gathers foundational accounts of the Norse imaginative world, moving between mythic poem, heroic lay, genealogical narrative, and saga history. Its range illuminates gods, giants, fate, kinship, warfare, and the approaching catastrophe of Ragnarök, while preserving the tonal variety of Old Norse literature: compressed wisdom, dark humor, elegiac lyricism, and vivid prose narration. Standout mythic episodes and heroic traditions reveal a culture in which cosmology and social memory are inseparable. The collection brings together anonymous medieval voices with the work of major Icelandic compilers, saga writers, translators, and later interpreters. These materials emerge from the literary culture of medieval Iceland, where oral tradition, skaldic practice, Christian manuscript preservation, and historical writing met in productive tension. Modern scholarly mediation helps situate the Eddic and saga materials for contemporary readers, while the differing textual forms demonstrate how Viking-age and later Scandinavian identities were imagined, transmitted, and reworked. Recommended for students of mythology, medieval literature, and Scandinavian history, this volume offers an unusually broad entry into Norse tradition. Readers can compare poetic prophecy with prose chronicle, heroic remembrance with divine drama, and inherited legend with its scholarly retelling. Its dialogue among genres makes it both an educational resource and a compelling invitation to encounter the enduring complexity of Viking myth.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion, Literary Classics
Length128 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CELTIC MYTHOLOGY (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Eddas
4The Elder Eddas of Saemund
5Preface
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6Introduction to the Voluspa
7Völuspâ. The Vala's Prophecy
8The Lay of Vafthrudnir
9The Lay of Grimnir
10The Lay of Vegtam, or Baldr's Dreams
11The High One's14 Lay
12Odin's Rune-song24
13The Lay of Hymir
14The Lay of Thrym, or the Hammer Recovered
15The Lay of the Dwarf Alvis.
16The Lay of Harbard.
17The Journey or Lay of Skirnir.
18The Lay of Rig.
19Oegir's Compotation, or Loki's Altercation
20The Lay of Fiolsvith
21The Lay of Hyndla
22The Incantation of Groa
23The Song of the Sun
24The Lay of Volund
25The Lay of Helgi Hiorvard's Son.
26The First Lay of Helgi Hundingcide
27The Second Lay of Helgi Hundingcide.
28Sinfiotli's End
29The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy
30The Second Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide
31The Lay of Fafnir
32The Lay of Sigrdrifa
33Fragments of the Lay of Sigurd and Brynhild.73
34The Third Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide
35Fragments of the Lay of Brynhild
36The First Lay of Gudrun
37Brynhild's Hel-ride
38The Slaughter of the Niflungs
39The Second Lay of Gudrun
40The Third Lay of Gudrun
41Oddrun's Lament
42The Lay of Atli.
43The Groenland Lay of Atli
44Gudrun's Incitement
45The Lay of Hamdir
46The Younger Eddas of Sturleson
47The Deluding of Gylfi
48Gylfi's Journey to Asgard
49Of the Supreme Deity
50Of the Primordial State of the Universe
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