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What is this new Paganism that is again challenging the spirit and values in people of northern European heritage? It is the Old Custom, and the Poetic Edda holds a vital place in it. This newly revised edition of the Poetic Edda uses the more readable, highly acclaimed Olive Bray translation and contains the Prophecy of the Wise Woman and The Hávamál. Together with a New Glossary of modern Heathen terms and an "edgy" introduction, this is a primary resource for understanding the Northern Way.
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Olive Bray The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 28, No. 4, Oct., 1929 reviewed Olive Bray's translation of The Poetic Edda, stating: 'Miss Bray's work is eminently satisfactory: she possesses a scholar's knowledge of the subject (though she was by no means a specialist in the field); and she had poetic ability of a high order. She nearly always succeeded in reproducing the poetry and the spirit of the old lays and she adhered to the metrical form; to do these things she did not hesitate, to depart from rules of alliteration or sometimes to disregard alliteration entirely. '
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