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By Lee M. Hollander
The Poetic Edda contains a treasure trove of mythic and religious verse retaining a huge position in Nordic tradition, literature, and background. Its stories of strife and demise shape a repository, in poetic shape, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying either the moral perspectives and the cultural lifetime of the North throughout the past due heathen and early Christian times.
Collected by way of an unidentified Icelander, most likely throughout the 12th or 13th century, The Poetic Edda used to be rediscovered in Iceland within the 17th century via Danish students. Even then its worth as poetry, as a resource of historic details, and as a suite of unique tales was once famous. This meticulous translation succeeds in reproducing the verse styles, the rhythm, the temper, and the glory of the unique in a revision that Scandinavian Studies says "may good grace anyone's bookshelf."
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Telemachus' journey has the effect of bringing him to a state of self-fulfillment in which he is identified by himself and others as a worthy successor to Odysseus. Part of this process involves literal identification, both in the sense that he is seen doing some of the same things his father does and in the sense that he is identified as Odysseus' son. When he visits the court of Menelaus and Helen he behaves in a way that anticipates his father's behavior among the Phaeacians. Because the rules of hospitality prohibit asking a guest's identity until his essential needs have INTRODUCTION been taken care of, both father and son are entertained by their hosts while remaining unknown.
Odysseus pitied her tears in his heart, But his eyes were as steady between their lids As if they were made of horn or iron As he concealed his own tears through guile. 224-29) 225 As she weeps at the thought of her absent husband and gives voice to her feelings, we gain a deeper understanding of what Penelope has had to contend with. In particular, she reveals a wrenching conflict between her roles as wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus. As long as Telemachus was small, those roles were congruent, but now that he has grown, his interests are no longer supported by her determination to hold out against a new marriage.
137-46) The loyal, upright members of Odysseus' household express a similar sensitivity to the randomness of fortune, which they link to their concerns for Odysseus in his absence, speculating that he must somewhere be in the same tough circumstances as the 140 145 THE LIMITS OF HEROISM beggar in their midst. In fact, the poet plays with this awareness in his virtuous characters, making it seem as if they might recognize Odysseus because of it. In Book 19, during Odysseus' conversation with Penelope by the fire, Penelope asks Eurycleia to wash the beggar's feet in terms that sound for a moment as if she knows who he is: Eurycleia, rise and wash your master's—that is, Wash the feet of this man who is your master's age.