Creations
Siân Echard, University of British Columbia |
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For this class we will be discussing Tolkien’s created world alongside some of the myths, legends, and sacred texts that might have influenced it. This page offers a few links to more information about some of those texts. |
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Kalevala: The Finnish National Epic: a very useful site from Virtual Finland; includes a summary, a history of the collection and publication of the epic, and its role in Finnish national identity Finnish Literature Society has a section on its site devoted to the Kalevala Projekt Runeberg has mounted the Kalevala online in Finnish Sacred Texts has the Kalevala online in English: as with all texts from this source, beware of occasional typographical errors that have resulted from scanning Sacred Texts also has an online version of Voluspo, from the Poetic Edda, as well as a translation of Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda Northvegr Foundation is a massive site that bills itself as a “world class heathen web resource”; you can find several translations of the Eddas here, along with a massive collection of northern texts There are several versions of Völuspá in Norse at Heimskringla, though not all are public access, and a lot of the material on the site (which is based in Norway) is in Norwegian or Danish Jörmungrund is a website which includes a handy parallel-text edition of the different manuscript versions of Völuspá; the individual Norse versions can also be found here |
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