The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems advanced player

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With the incredible and sometimes overwhelming amount of detail and action going on in these engravings

These crisply rendered designs lend themselves to a myriad of decorative applications: needlework and craft projects

this edition reproduces one of these sets of 80 prints

The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems advanced playerThe vibrant Old Norse poems in this collection, which may have been brought together as early as the thirteenth century, authentically capture the ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen. In addition, their images of a mythical world profoundly influenced latter day storytellers as Richard Wagner and J. R. R. Tolkien. Known as the "Lays of the Gods," these mythological poems include the Voluspo, one of the broadest conceptions of the world's creation