The Prose Edda is a medieval Icelandic handbook of poetry and Norse mythology, attributed to Snorri Sturluson. It retells stories of gods and heroes and explains the poetic diction of skalds. It is worth listening to for its clear window into Old Norse myth and literary craft.
For teachers and schools: paste the code into your site or blog.
Cover illustration generated by AI.
Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
A few paragraph-ending periods (full stops) have been supplied. The author omitted vowel modifiers and diacritics from all names in the body text: Hakon, Malar, Mjolnir. The footnotes are generally more linguistically precise. The name “Svanhild/Swanhild” is spelled “Swanhild” in the body text, “Svanhild” in the Vocabulary (all occurrences) and Index. The spelling “skees” is used consistently. Translator’s Preface The Fooling of Gylfe Brage’s Talk The Poetical Diction Notes Vocabulary Index THE YOUNGER EDDA: ALSO CALLED SNORRE’S EDDA, OR THE PROSE EDDA. AN ENGLISH VERSION OF THE FOREWORD; THE FOOLING OF GYLFE, THE AFTERWORD; BRAGE’S TALK, THE AFTERWORD TO BRAGE’S TALK, AND THE IMPORTANT PASSAGES IN THE POETICAL DICTION (SKALDSKAPARMAL). WITH AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES, VOCABULARY, AND INDEX.
BΏ RASMUS B. ANDERSON, LL.D.,
FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF THE SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, EX-U.S. MINISTER TO DENMARK, AUTHOR OF
“AMERICA NOT DISCOVERED BY COLUMBUS,” “NORSE MYTHOLOGY,”
Readnara
