Þorsteinn Gylfason

Jóhannes Jónasson 1942-1999 Minning Hvar og hvenær birt Í rýni

Richard Wagner as a Poet Wagner’s Ring and its Icelandic SourcesStofnun Sigurðar Nordals 1995 It was Wagner’s ambition to write the text of The Ring of the Nibelung in Eddic verse. The author explains the chief principles of Icelandic prosody, unchanged from the Eddas to the present day, and finds that in the main Wagner