The Prose Edda (Translated with an Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary by Rasmus B. Anderson). Snorri Sturluson
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THE PROSE EDDA
By SNORRI STURLUSON
Translated by
RASMUS B. ANDERSON
The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda)
By Snorri Sturluson
Translated by with an Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary by Rasmus B. Anderson
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Cover Image: A detail of “Idun and the Apples”, by James Doyle Penrose, an illustration from Teutonic Myths and Legends by Donald A. Makenzie, c. 1890.
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CONTENTS
Chapter II. Gylfe’s Journey to Asgard.
Chapter III. Of the Highest God.
Chapter IV. The Creation of the World.
Chapter V. The Creation—(Continued.)
Chapter VI. The First Works of the Asas. The Golden Age.
Chapter VII. On The Wonderful Things In Heaven.
Chapter IX. Loke and His Offspring.
Chapter X. The Goddesses (Asynjes).
Chapter XI. The Giantess Gerd and Skirner’s Journey.
Chapter XIII. Odin’s Horse and Frey’s Ship.
Chapter XIV. Thor’s Adventures.
Chapter XV. The Death of Balder.
Afterword. To The Fooling of Gylfe.
Chapter I. Æger’s Journey to Asgard.
Chapter II. Idun and Her Apples.
Chapter III. How Njord Got Skade to Wife.
Chapter IV. The Origin of Poetry.
Extracts from the Poetical Diction.