Redmess
#102: May 23rd 2020 at 5:15:09 PM
What would be a good English (academic) translation of the poetic Edda?
The next Assassins Creed game will be set in the Viking Age, so reading up on some Norse mythology sounds fun.
Edited by Redmess on May 23rd 2020 at 2:16:21 PM
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#103: Jun 21st 2020 at 10:56:44 AM
^ AFAIK The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington (1996) and The Elder Edda by Andy Orchard (2011) are the most recent academic translations.
Let's just say and leave it at that.
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@phoenix: My opinion? The Bellows translation (found on sacred-texts.com) is pretty good.
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