This is a listing for the Digital Edition (PDF) of The Comparative Hávamál: Historic Advice & Guidance from the Viking Age God Odin.
“A tree withers that on a hill-top stands;
protects it neither barks nor leaves:
such is the man whom no one favors:
why should he live long?”
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Widely celebrated and referenced in popular culture as a literary
treasure and even achieving the status of holy scripture in some
contemporary new religious movements, the enigmatic Hávamál
reaches us today by way of a single Old Icelandic manuscript from
the 1200s, though the poem’s contents are dated to the late pagan
period (900s-1000s). This material ranges from the practical to the
profound, from the everyday to the deeply occult, all presented in
the voice of the god Odin (Óðinn) as guidance for humankind, his
creations. Featuring original art from Katie Metcalfe and Jacqui
Alberts Lund, newly introduced by scholar Lyonel Perabo, and
with commentary from philologist Joseph S. Hopkins, this beautiful edition presents three celebrated translations of the text beside
its original Old Icelandic.
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A UNIQUE & APPROACHABLE
EDITION INTENDED
FOR EVERYONE
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2024. 404 pages. 5x7. Published by Hyldyr.
ISBN-13: 978-1-966041-02-3
Digital Edition.
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