PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Old Norse Poetry, Poetic Edda, Old Norse Literature
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Old norse poem: old norse was a language spoken widely throughout british isles for hundreds of years, forming a major part of the modern english we speak now e. g. they". Also, close parallels between on and oe literature and on and me literature parallels. Moves much faster than oe english easy to miss something crucial, there is not much reflection. One of the climactic poems in the poetic edda eddic poems in a single manuscript! Atlkavida exists only in the codex regius of the poetic edda, only the 1 manuscript. If that 1 manuscript had gone missing we would not have any of this work! Various poems organised thematically beginning is mythological poems about the. Gods: halfway through it changes to heroic narrative stories about human beings e. g. no gods in atklavida. Politics within a human and social context a story that has come out of the events of real people at some point or another.
