Not only are they said to sit upon his shoulders in the Prose Edda, but Odin is referred to as 'Hrafnaguo' (literally meaning ...

Historically, Snorri was one of the most renowned historians and poets of medieval Iceland, authoring the famous Prose Edda, one of the primary sources of Norse mythology today. For players ...

All we know is that we’ve lost an incredible amount. One reason Snorri Sturluson, who wrote the Prose Edda, started writing this down was in order to explain what are called kennings.

This course surveys the primary collection of Old Norse poetry about the pre-Christian Scandinavian gods, the Poetic Edda. You will also work with the main collections of stories about the Old Norse ...

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In several poems in the Poetic Edda, the Valkyries are described as serving food and mead to the fallen in the halls of Valhalla. In the poem Grímnismál, for instance, Odin lists 11 valkyries ...

Mahon, M. Wade 2001. The rhetorical value of reading aloud in Thomas Sheridan's theory of elocution. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 31, Issue. 4, p. 67.

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Evelyn Waugh, who loathed Churchill, said the wartime leader was “a master of sham-Augustan prose”. Johnson would never dare, or want, to be Augustan in the manner of Edward Gibbon (he of The ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life ...

South Korean author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what the Nobel committee called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the ...