Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:34
THN
- Nicole Cherry's Norse Mythology page Excellent, with more being added.
- The nordic mythology... A recounting of Snori's Edda, possibly with more to come.
- Sverre Moe's Viking History Web includes a good deal of information on Norse mythology and deities. He's also working on a multi-lingual text archive of sagas and Edda poems, but the primary focus of the site is on history.
- The Viking Home Page which has some info on the history and religion of the Northmen.
- Some students in Iceland have been putting together Fornfraedi a Vesturlandi which has or will have info. on some a couple of sagas as well as Snorri's Edda. That link will get you to the English version, from which the more comprehensive Icelandic version is also reachable. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
- Nicky Page provides a collection of translations on The Norse Classics Page, including Paul Taylor and W. H. Auden's translation of the Elder Edda, a translation of the Prose Edda, excerpts from a number of sagas, and an essay or two on Norse Mythology.
- The Poetic Edda translated into English by Stephan Grundy. Also known as Edda Saemundar and as the Elder Edda, the oldest written copy of this work dates to 1270 in Iceland, about 30 years after the publication of Snorri Sturlason's Prose Edda. Still, this work is often judged to be closer to the source than Snorri's work and less colored by his clerical perceptions.
- Within its extensive archives, Project Runeberg offers The Poetic Edda, both in modern Swedish and in Old Norse.
- Composed around 1200 for an Austrian court wedding, the Nibelungenlied tells of the Burgundians Gunther and Kriemhild, her lover, Siegfried, Gunter's wooing of Brunhild, the treachery of Hagen, and the court of Etzel aka. Attila the Hun.
- The story of Sigurd, Gudren, Grimhild and Brynhild is found in the 13th century work Volsunga Saga, a story which is also told in the Poetic Edda and the Nibelungenleid.
- The Germanic Heritage Page, by Arlea Anschütz, includes a page of links to and essays about Germanic folklore and mythology as well as Asatru, history, and literature.
- In Furth im Wald, every summer for the past 500 years or so, the "Drachenstich" is performed - tale of a knight slaying a dragon during the Hussite Wars. This site is primarily auf Deutsch.
- A rise in the spirit of German unity, partially triggered by a rising French influence during the reign of Napoleon inspired linguists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm to assemble a collection of Märchen - most often translated as 'Fairy Tales', but also meaning 'Fables' or 'Legends', from across the German countryside, publishing them between 1812 and 1815.
- Also in the 1800's, Richard Wagner composed Der Ring des Nibelungen, an opera in the tradition of Nibelungenleid and the Volsungsaga. This page by Erik Tempel contains a plot summary and character descriptions of the cycle - in Dutch.
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