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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

In that strange island Iceland, — burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of the sea; a wild land of barrenness and lava; swallowed many months of every year in black tempests, yet with a wild gleaming beauty in summertime; towering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean with its snow jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur-pools and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire; — where of all places we least looked for Literature or written memorials, the record of these things was written down.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-05), “The Hero as Divinity,” Home House, Portman Square, London

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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

In that strange island Iceland, — burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of the sea; a wild land of barrenness and lava; swallowed many months of every year in black tempests, yet with a wild gleaming beauty in summertime; towering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean with its snow jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur-pools and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire; — where of all places we least looked for Literature or written memorials, the record of these things was written down.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-05), “The Hero as Divinity,” Home House, Portman Square, London

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/81268…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #desolation #edda #geology #Iceland #literature #myth #nature #wilderness

A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

In that strange island Iceland, — burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of the sea; a wild land of barrenness and lava; swallowed many months of every year in black tempests, yet with a wild gleaming beauty in summertime; towering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean with its snow jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur-pools and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire; — where of all places we least looked for Literature or written memorials, the record of these things was written down.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-05), “The Hero as Divinity,” Home House, Portman Square, London

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/81268…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #desolation #edda #geology #Iceland #literature #myth #nature #wilderness

A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

In that strange island Iceland, — burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of the sea; a wild land of barrenness and lava; swallowed many months of every year in black tempests, yet with a wild gleaming beauty in summertime; towering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean with its snow jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur-pools and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire; — where of all places we least looked for Literature or written memorials, the record of these things was written down.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-05), “The Hero as Divinity,” Home House, Portman Square, London

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/81268…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #desolation #edda #geology #Iceland #literature #myth #nature #wilderness

A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

In that strange island Iceland, — burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of the sea; a wild land of barrenness and lava; swallowed many months of every year in black tempests, yet with a wild gleaming beauty in summertime; towering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean with its snow jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur-pools and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire; — where of all places we least looked for Literature or written memorials, the record of these things was written down.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-05), “The Hero as Divinity,” Home House, Portman Square, London

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/81268…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #desolation #edda #geology #Iceland #literature #myth #nature #wilderness

New chapter of "Loki and the Ranger - Truth" is now available for your reading pleasure.

#Loki #LokiandtheRanger #NorseMythology #Edda #storytelling #selfpublichedauthor #darkfantasy

https://ko-fi.com/post/Loki-and-the-Ranger--Truth--Chapter-2-B0B11R7VK8

Kamigano no Asobi, episode 3: the gods discuss their food, and Loki doesn't really care. Yet he is a glutton. In Gylfagynning of the Prose Edda, Loki claims he can eat faster than anyone else. He competes against Logi, but loses. Logi represents fire and even consumes the trough that held the food. No wonder Loki loses. Maybe Loki doesn't care what he gets to eat in the series. The important thing is food. #anime #神々の戯 #kamigaminoasobi #norsemythology #loki #edda #proseedda

Still stuck on Kamigami no Asobi: Balder is very clumsy and constantly falls over. However, nothing happens to him and even the forces of nature don't want to hurt him. This is clearly a reference to the Poetic Edda. Frigg makes all things swear not to harm Balder, except for a mistletoe branch, which Loki later uses to kill Balder. I'm curious to see if this will be picked up later in the series. #anime #神々の戯 #kamigaminoasobi #norsemythology #balder #loki #mistletoe #edda #poeticedda

A quotation from the Poetic Edda

Now do I see  
                    the earth anew
Rise all green  
                    from the waves again;
The cataracts fall,  
                    and the eagle flies,
And fish he catches  
                    beneath the cliffs.
 
[Sér hon upp koma
                    ǫðru sinni
jǫrð ór ægi,
                    iðjagrœna;
falla forsar,
                    flýgr ǫrn yfir,
sá er á fjalli
                    fiska veiðir.]

Poetic Edda (800-1100) Old Norse anonymous collection of poems
Völuspá [Prophecy of the Völva; Prophecy of the Seeress], st. 59 (AD 961) [tr. Bellows (1936)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/edda-poetic/80778/

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A quotation from the Poetic Edda

The sun turns black,  
                    earth sinks in the sea,
The hot stars down  
                    from heaven are whirled;
Fierce grows the steam  
                    and the life-feeding flame,
Till fire leaps high  
                    about heaven itself.
 
[Sól tér sortna,
                    sígr fold í mar,
hverfa af himni
                    heiðar stjǫrnur;
geisar eimi
                    við aldnara,
leikr hár hiti
                    við himin sjálfan.]

Poetic Edda (800-1100) Old Norse anonymous collection of poems
Völuspá [Prophecy of the Völva; Prophecy of the Seeress], st. 57 (AD 961) [tr. Bellows (1936)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/edda-poetic/80684/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #edda #poeticedda #apocalypse #conflagration #destruction #devastation #endoftheworld #ragnarok

A quotation from the Poetic Edda

Brothers shall fight
          and fell each other,
And sisters’ sons
          shall kinship stain;
Hard is it on earth,
          with mighty whoredom;
Axe-time, sword-time,
          shields are sundered,
Wind-time, wolf-time,
          ere the world falls;
Nor ever shall
          each other spare.
          
[Brœðr munu berjask
          ok at bǫnum verða,
munu systrungar
          sifjum spilla;
hart er í heimi,
          hórdómr mikill;
skeggǫld, skálmǫld
          — skildir ru klofnir —
vindǫld, vargǫld,
          áðr verǫld steypisk;
mun engi maðr
          ǫðrum þyrma.]

Poetic Edda (800-1100) Old Norse anonymous collection of poems
Völuspá [Prophecy of the Völva; Prophecy of the Seeress] (AD 961) [tr. Bellows (1936); st. 45]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/edda-poetic/80217/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #edda #poeticedda #oldnorse #ragnarok #apocalypse #chaos #disaster #endoftheworld #violence #betrayal #warning

The Story of Loki and the Ranger finally continues!

#Loki #lokiandtheranger #norsemythology #storytelling #WritingCommunity #fiction #edda

https://youtu.be/UZggUSCIvRc

My copy of the 2nd edition of The Poetic Edda translation by Jackson Crawford finally arrived!

#book #edda #viking #VikingAge #poetry

Hintergrundinformation:

Als #Edda werden zwei verschiedene, in altisländischer Sprache verfasste literarische Werke bezeichnet. Beide wurden im 13. Jahrhundert im christianisierten #Island niedergeschrieben und behandeln skandinavische Götter- und Heldensagen. Trotz dieser Gemeinsamkeiten unterscheiden sie sich ihrem Ursprung nach und im literarischen Charakter.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda

Our Norse Mythology Quiz has just been published - Time for Ragnarök!
https://youknowwhatblog.com/quizzes/norse-mythology-quiz/

#norse #nordic #mythology #myth #folk #folklore #nordicmythology #viking #norsemythology #edda #ragnarok #odin #thor #ragnarokonline #midgard #asgard #heimdall #valhala

EDDA - The Rheingold Curse: A Germanic Saga of Greed and Vengeance from ...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QVq6DOwVHls&si=IEjeX9U084LUrIWB
#MedievalMusic
#Edda-RheingoldCurse
#EnsembleSequentia

Ich liebe ja die Geschichten aus der #Edda und generell Erzählungen aus dem Kontext #Asatru und der nordisch-germanischen Mythologie. Heute habe ich #Udio also angewiesen, ein Stück über Lokis Frefel zu komponieren. Der Verräter instrumentalisiert den blinden Hödur und sorgt dafür, dass dieser den von allen geliebten Lichtgott, Baldur, während eines Spiels tötet. Wie kann es sein, dass eine KI Inhalte erschaffft, die mich so tief emotional berühren?

Found this anthology of Edda-poems at the thrift store the other day, curiously some remnants of “samnorsk” in the translation (it’s from 1975). #norse #edda #books

You‘ll never be as famous as the Eddic dwarf Litr, who was “kicked by Thor into Baldr’s funeral pyre for an unclear reason”.

Listening to the audiobook of LotR put me on a search for the source of dwarves (my fav plural) in fiction and folklore. First stop: Wikipedia. 🫶🏻

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_(folklore)

#medieval #folklore #Tolkien #edda #literature #academia