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Forgotten Ground Regained

Links to Selected Text and Translations of Alliterative Verse from Languages other than English

The links connected to on this page draw on content from the Internet History Sourcebook Project, The Internet Sacred Text Repository, the University of Wisconsin Libraries, In Parentheses, Academia.org, Heimskringla, Voluspa.org, Reclam, D.L. Ashliman, Rahul Gupta, Math Jones, Steven L. Mosko , Sanna Peden, and Ragnar's Ragweed Forge. Other useful sites include The Skaldic Project.
Icelandic
Selected Poems and Prose of Jonas Halgrimsson
(original text with English translations)
KVæDASKAPUR: Icelandic Epic Song
Lytla Skalda (Icelandic Poetry Manual)
Poetry in the Sagas of the Icelanders
Old Norse
Sólarljóð (translation, Nik Gunn)
Tale of Thrym (Poetic Edda)
Original Text
Translation by George Johnston
Translation by Olive Bray/ D. L. Ashliman
Old Norse
Havamal (Poetic Edda)
Original Text
Translation by Olive Bray/ D.L.Ashliman
Translation by W.H. Auden and P.B. Taylor
Translation of stanzas 81-90 by Rahul Gupta
Old Norse
Rigsthula (Poetic Edda)
Original Text
Translation by Olive Bray/D.L. Ashliman
Gylfaginning (from the Prose Edda) translated into verse by Math Jones
Old Norse
Poetic Edda (Other)
  • Original Text with Prose Translation by Henry Adams Bellows
  • Fáfnismál (Rahul Gupta)
  • Alvíssmál (Rahul Gupta)
Old Norse
Voluspa
Translation/Performance by Clare Mulley
Heimskringla
Corpus of Old Norse Poetry
  • Krákumál translation by Judith Jesch in The Triumph Tree: Scotland's Earliest Poetry
  • Skaldic Poetry of the Early Middle Ages
  • Melissa Dunphy, Sea Tangle: Songs of the North [overview including recording of “Hervarkviða” here]
Old High German
Hildebrandslied
Original TextTranslation by David D. FriedmanTranslation by D. L. AshlimanTranslation by Francis A. Wood
Old High German
Nibelungenlied
Original TextProse Translation
Finnish
Kalevala
Original TextTranslation by John Martin Crawford Ongoing Translation by Team Louhi BBC Segment on translating the Kalevala
Old Saxon
The Heliand
Original TextMariana Scott's Translation (pdf)
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