Hrafnagaldur Odins: Modern Scholarship

From: Asvinr
Message: 68184
Date: 2011-11-07

Hi,

Recently I translated and posted online a Danish article by Annette Lassen of the University of Copenhagen regarding the controversial Old Icelandic poem Hrafnagaldur Odins. It was presented at the 2006 International Saga Conference.

The article is significant because it is one of the few articles written on the poem by modern scholars. Better yet, it summarizes the scholarship from the 1800s that discredited the poem as a late imitation, and reviews the modern arguments published in Iceland in the early 2000s for and against the poem being an authentic heathen poem.

You can find my facing text translation at:

http://www.germanicmythology.com/PoeticEdda/HRGLassenArticle2006.html

Your feedback and comments are welcome onlist or in private. If you spot any errors or typos, please let me know.

Enjoy!

Wassail, William