Sequentia's Eddic Music

Perhaps the most powerfully enchanted literary source for old-school European paganism is a 13th century Icelandic manuscript called the Codex Regius, which contains a group of poems known as the The Poetic Edda. The Icelanders were tucked away in the attic of the world, and though they converted to Christianity around 1000—voluntarily, and for largely diplomatic reasons—the old ways held on, albeit transformed, and made an unusually direct impression, here and elsewhere, on the island’s literary corpus. Of course, a...