The Poetic Edda: Volume II: Mythological Poems by Ursula Dronke
By Ursula Dronke
This new version of mythological poems from the Poetic Edda takes the reader deep into the mind's eye of the Viking poets (c.1000 AD). atmosphere textual content and translation aspect by means of aspect, Dronke offers complete introductions and commentaries for every of the poems.
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Bella, horrida bella, et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. non Simois tibi nec Xanthus nec Dorica castra defuerint; alius Latio iam partus Achilles, natus et ipse dea; nec Teucris addita Iuno P P 65 T 70 75 80 TT 85 90 Text and translation 7 Now at last we are taking hold of Italy's escaping shores; thus far may Troy's luck have followed us. It is right for you too to spare the people of Pergamum, all you gods and goddesses in whose path stood Ilium and the great glory of Dardania. You too, most hallowed priestess (65), informed in advance of the future, grant (nor do I ask for a realm not owed by my destiny) to the Trojans a settlement in Latium, along with their wandering gods and the buffeted deities of Troy.
Ergo omnes magno circum clamore fremebant, praecipue pius Aeneas. tum iussa Sibyllae, haud mora, festinant flentes aramque sepulcri congerere arboribus caeloque educere certant. itur in antiquam siluam, stabula alta ferarum; procumbunt piceae, sonat icta securibus ilex T 155 160 T T 165 170 175 T 180 Text and translation 13 while you are seeking out responses and tarry at my doors. Return him to his resting-place and lay him in his grave. Bring black ewes; let them be the first expiation. ” She ended, closed her lips and fell silent (155).
Der klass. Alt. Luterbacher, Die Prodigienglaube und Prodigienstil der Römer (repr. Maclennan, ed. 6. [ca. Malosti ‘Uno stilema virgiliano: l'ablativo di estensione in Studi sulla lingua poetica latina ed. Caputo informs me that, despite prolonged enquiries, he has found no trace of the material excavated and there is no reason to think that it survives. Mazzochini, Forme e significati della narrazione bellica nell' epos Virgiliano (Fasano 2000) Mellinghoff-B. Mellinghoff-Bourgerie, Les incertitudes de Virgile (Coll.