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The Elder Edda of Saemund Sigfusson, Translated from the Original Old Norse Text into English by Benjamin Thorpe, and The Younger Edda of Snorre Sturleson, Translated from the Original Old Norse Text into English by I. A. Blackwell. — London : Norroena Society, 1907. — 345 p.
The Poetic Edda is the modern attribution for an unnamed collection of Old Norse poems, while several versions exist all consist primarily of text from the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript known as the Codex Regius. The Codex Regius is arguably the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, and from the early 19th century onwards has had a powerful influence on later Scandinavian literatures, not merely through the stories it contains but through the visionary force and dramatic quality of many of the poems. It has also become an inspiring model for many later innovations in poetic meter, particularly in the Nordic languages, offering many varied examples of terse, stress-based metrical schemes working without any final rhyme, and instead using alliterative devices and strongly concentrated imagery.
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-co CO 1 1 z ^^ trSSSm =o =° == = (0 > == _ r '- — > ^ ,== ==c^ ^^^^__ 00 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from University of Toronto http://www.archive.org/details/eldereddaofsaemuOOthor & 1 OF THE IRo^al There are but four hundred the world, le&ítíon and fifty complete sets of which No.. made for this is copy 22 r*/f1 HORRCENA ANGLO-SAXON CLASSICS COPYRIGHT T. H. SMART 1905 »u It The Elder Edda OF SAEMUND SIGFUSSON. Translated from the Original Old Norse Text into English BY BENJAMIN THORPE, AND THE YOUNGER EDDA OF SNORRE STURLESON. Translated from the Original Old Norse Text into English BY I. A. BLACKWELL. HON. RASMUS B. ANDERSON, LL.D., EDITOR IN CHIEF. J. W. BUEL, Ph.D., \aK^ MANAGING EDITOR. /0 PUBLISHED BY THE NORRŒNA SOCIETY, LONDON STOCKHOLM COPENHAGEN BERLIN NEW YORK 1907 LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURES. (Elder and Younger Eddas.) Frontispiece —Gunnar (Gunther). Page Siegfried Awakens Brynhild 159 Death of Atli 247 A 331 Feast in Valhalla CONTENTS. THE ELDER EDDA OF SAEMUND. Page Preface by the Translator Introduction to the Voluspa The Vala's Prophecy The Lay of Vafthrudnir The Lay of Vegtam, or Baldur's ix xv 1 9 Dream The High One's Lay Odin's Rune Song The Lay of Hymir The Lay of Thrym, or the Hammer Recovered The Lay of the Dwarf Alvis The Lay of Harbard The Journey, or Lay of Skirnir The Lay of Rig Egir's Compotation, or Loki's Altercation The The The The The The The The Lay Lay 48 53 57 63 71 78 84 102 Hyndla Incantation of Groa Song of the Sun 109 Lay Lay 121 of Ill Volund Son First Lay of Helgi Hundingcide Second Lay of Helgi Hundingcide Sinfiotli's The Lay The Lay The Lay of Helgi Hiorvard's End First 137 144 180 of Sigrdrifa of 157 172 of Fafnir Lay 127 155 Prophecy of Sigurd, or Gripir's Fragments of the Lay of Sig