The Edda —— The Divine Mythology of the North

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ISBN: 9781333801748 出版年：2016 页码：56 Winifred Faraday Forgotten Books

V'o'luspa, though not one of the earliest poems, forms an appropriate opening. Metrical considera tions forbid an earlier date than the first quarter of the eleventh century, and the last few lines are still later. The material is, however, older: the poem is an outline, in allusions often obscure to us, of traditions and beliefs familiar to its first hearers.