Tag: Poetic Edda

Siegfried und Brunnhilde by Charles Ernest Butler (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18935890)

A Thousand Years Before Tolkien: The Original Evil Magic Ring

January 19, 2017 no comment

An evil magic ring, associated with dwarf and dragon – what a great idea Tolkien had for his books! But he actually borrowed it from ancient Viking legends…

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Loki taunts Bragi by W. G. Collingwood. By W.G. Collingwood (1854 - 1932) - The Elder or Poetic Edda; commonly known as Sæmund's Edda. Edited and translated with introduction and notes by Olive Bray. Illustrated by W.G. Collingwood (1908) Page 244. Digitized by the Internet Archive and available from http://www.archive.org/details/elderorpoeticedd01brayuoft This image was made from the JPEG 2000 image of the relevant page via image processing (crop, rotate, color-levels, mode) with the GIMP by User:Haukurth. The image processing is probably not eligible for copyright but in case it is User:Haukurth releases his modified version into the public domain., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4746099

From Thor to Twitter: Flyting and the Norse Tradition of Insulting Your Enemies

January 12, 2017 1 comment

One of the main tactics the Norse gods employed in their struggles, aside from outright trickery and brute force, was trading verbal insults.

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