Völuspá: lays of dead idols

by Otto von Busch

A man who has his feet hacked off cannot scurry far, as the Norse saying goes. The Völuspá is the first and most famous of the old Norse Eddic poems, capturing the birth and violent death the Æsir. The myths of the dark battlefields of the Gods reveal the violent nature of the social realm of dress. Fashion is part of our shared reality, a condition of our world we cannot run away from. Völuspá poem from The Poetic Edda, originally translated by Henry Adams Bellows (1936 edition) Foreword and annotions by Otto von Busch

96 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2015