The Prose Edda Index. The Poetic Edda Index. Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas Iceland Buy this Book at Amazon.com Contents Start Reading Page Index Text [Zipped] [PDF] The Poetic Eddas are the oral literature of Iceland, which were finally written down from 1000 to 1300 C.E. The Eddas are a primary source for our knowledge of ancient Norse pagan beliefs. This translation of the Poetic Eddas by Henry Adams Bellows is highly readable. The poems are great tragic literature, with vivid descriptions of the emotional states of the protagonists, Gods and heroes alike.
The impact of these sagas from a sparsely inhabited rocky island in the middle of the Atlantic on world culture is wide-ranging. Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas. Sacred-texts home Neo-Paganism Classical Mythology Lord of the RingsBuy CD-ROM Buy Books: Legends and Sagas General Northern European Arabia Baltic Basque Celtic Eastern European England Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Italy Persia Portugal Roma (Gypsy) Scandinavia Spain This section of sacred-texts archives the rich literature of Sagas and Legends. These are mostly (but not all) from Northern Europe, and primarily based on legendary events and people from the Middle Ages. Many of these narratives are based on archetypal stories that date even further back in time. General The Myth of the Birth of the Hero by Otto Rank [1914]A groundbreaking application of psychoanalysis to comparative mythology. The Lang Fairy Books by Andrew Lang [1889-1910]Full text of the classic folk-lore series, written for children of all ages The Works of Lord Dunsany by Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany [1905-22]Lord Dunsany paved the way for Tolkien with his delightful internally consistent fantasy worlds.
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So, when GBS, which has thrown high-powered computers, brilliant engineers, and millions of dollars at digitizing the world's books, claims to have come up with a reasonable count of the number of books in the world, who are we to disagree? "After we exclude serials, we can finally count all the books in the world," wrote Google's Leonid Taycher in a GBS blog post. "There are 129,864,880 of them. At least until Sunday. " It's a large, official-sounding number, and the explanation for how Google arrived at it involves a number of acronyms and terms that will be unfamiliar to most of those who read the post. It's also quite likely to be complete bunk.
The ongoing GBS metadata farce Blaming the libraries. Google Books: A Metadata Train Wreck. « previous post | next post » Mark has already extensively blogged the Google Books Settlement Conference at Berkeley yesterday, where he and I both spoke on the panel on "quality" — which is to say, how well is Google Books doing this and what if anything will hold their feet to the fire? This is almost certainly the Last Library, after all. There's no Moore's Law for capture, and nobody is ever going to scan most of these books again. So whoever is in charge of the collection a hundred years from now — Google? UNESCO? Wal-Mart? — these are the files that scholars are going to be using then.
My presentation focussed on GB's metadata — a feature absolutely necessary to doing most serious scholarly work with the corpus. Start with dates. And while there may be particular reasons why the 1899 date comes up so much, these misdatings are spread out all over the place. It might seem easy to cherry-pick howlers from a corpus as exensive as this one, but these errors are endemic. Permalink. <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller Seth Godin to No Longer Publish Books Traditionally - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat.