Ned's cloaks are grey with white, as well as black wool. His surcoat is fine white velvet with a direwolf badge over the heart. Ned also wears silk and linen tunics and a belt of heavy silver links. While riding his great warhorse in the north, Ned wears furs and leathers. Among his enemies, Eddard has the reputation of having cold, judgmental eyes thought to reflect his frozen heart. He is fiercely protective of his wife and children, whom he loves deeply.Įddard is known for his unwavering sense of honor and justice and his family finds him kind, although some consider his reserved personality a sign of coldness and disdain. Eddard is shorter and less handsome than his older brother Brandon had been, according to Catelyn Stark however, she also states that Ned has a "good sweet heart beneath his solemn face".
His dark grey eyes reflect his moods, turning soft as fog or hard as stone. His closely-trimmed beard is beginning to grey, making him look older than his thirty-five years. Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, translator of Beowulf as well as the Prose Edda, was an intriguing person in his own right, writing pulp fiction along with his masterful scholarly translations and advocating radical political notions during the dangerous McCarthy era.Appearance and Character See also: Images of Eddard StarkĮddard has a long face and long brown hair. The third part, Háttatal, is a trilogy of heroic poetry demonstrating the techniques of Skáldskaparmál (it is not included in this translation because of the translator's conviction that its highly technical nature "forbids" its effective translation into English). The second part, Skáldskaparmál, presented as a dialogue between Ægir, the God of the Sea and Bragi, the God of Poetry, is a fascinating textbook on skaldic poetry, including the uses of alliteration and kennings. The first part of the Prose Edda is the Gylfaginning (The Tricking of Gylfi), dealing with the creation of the world and the major elements of Norse mythology. The two Eddas have had a profound effect on European literature in both style and content, not least on J.R.R. Along with the Elder or Poetic Edda written by an unknown poet a half-century earlier, the Prose Edda is a major source of much older Norse mythology as it had evolved through the generations.
Translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (1888 - 1971)Īlso known as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, the Prose Edda is a three-part work composed or at least compiled by thirteenth-century Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation)
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