Baldrs draumar and the generic turn.

From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Malm, Mats | Copyright information

BALDRS DRAUMAR has more than once challenged scholars trying to use the poem as a source of Old Norse mythology. It has often been considered not only self-contradictory but also "a bad poem," although such evaluations are rare nowadays. (1) The apparent ambiguity of Baldrs draumar will seem a disadvantage if the poem is considered literally, that is--as eddic poems generally are--as a presentation of myth. If, on the other hand, Baldrs draumar is taken literarily, as a poem making...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

Baldrs draumar and the generic turn.
Scandinavian Studies ; BALDRS DRAUMAR has more than once challenged scholars trying to use the poem as a source of Old Norse mythology. It has often been considered not only self-contradictory but also a bad poem, although such evaluations are rare nowadays. (1) The apparent ambiguity of Baldrs draumar will seem a
The Poetic Edda. Essays on Old Norse Mythology.(Book Review)
Folklore ; Edited by Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington. New York and London: Roufledge, 2002. xviii + 290 pp. Illus. 75.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 0-8153-1660-7 This volume provides an introductory survey of the last generation of scholarship on the corpus of eddic mythological poetry. The thirteen
(book reviews)
Scandinavian Studies ; Ursula Dronke, ed. The Poetic Edda. Vol. 2. Mythological Poems. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. i-xiv + 443. The purpose of this edition is literary --Ursula Dronke announces in the Preface-- to open up for the common reader the delights of the complexities and felicities of the poems and the
The Poetic Edda, II: Mythological Poems.(Review)
Medium Aevum ; The Poetic Edda, II: Mythological Poems, ed., trans., introd., and commentary by Ursula Dronke (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). 464 pp. ISBN 0-19-811181-9. 70.00 [pounds sterling]. The long-awaited second volume of Ursula Dronke's edition of eddic poems has now appeared. It adds six to the poems of
Klaus von See, Beatrice La Farge, Wolfgang Gerhold, Eve Picard, Katja Schulz, eds. Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda.(Book review)
Scandinavian Studies ; Klaus von See, Beatrice La Farge, Wolfgang Gerhold, Eve Picard, Katja Schulz, eds. Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda. Vol. 5. Helden Lieder Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2006. The genesis of this commentary to what is widely known in the English speaking world as the Poetic Edda extends