The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda. Snorri Sturluson

The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda

has bequeathed to it. Thus does it grow greater and richer with each new generation. The past is the mirror that reflects the future.

R. B. ANDERSON.

University of Wisconsin,

Madison, Wis., September, 1879.

Preface	5
Introduction	15
Foreword	33
THE FOOLING OF GYLFE.
CHAPTER I.
Gefjun’s Plowing	49
CHAPTER II.
Gylfe’s Journey to Asgard	51
CHAPTER III.
Of the Highest God	54
CHAPTER IV.
The Creation of the World	56
CHAPTER V.
The Creation (continued)	64
CHAPTER VI.
The First Works of the Asas—The Golden Age	69
CHAPTER VII.
On the Wonderful Things in Heaven	72
CHAPTER VIII.
The Asas	79
CHAPTER IX.
Loke and his Offspring	91
CHAPTER X.
The Goddesses (Asynjes)	97
CHAPTER XI.
The Giantess Gerd and Skirner’s Journey	101
CHAPTER XII.
Life in Valhal	104
CHAPTER XIII.
Odin’s Horse and Frey’s Ship	109
CHAPTER XIV.
Thor’s Adventures	113
CHAPTER XV.
The Death of Balder	131
CHAPTER XVI.
Ragnarok	140
CHAPTER XVII.
Regeneration	147
Afterword to the Fooling of Gylfe	151
BRAGE’S TALK
CHAPTER I.
Æger’s Journey to Asgard	152
CHAPTER II.
Idun and her Apples	155
CHAPTER III.
How Njord got Skade to Wife	158
CHAPTER IV.
The Origin of Poetry	160
Afterword to Brage’s Talk	166
EXTRACTS FROM THE POETICAL DICTION.
Thor and Hrungner	169
Thor’s Journey to Geirrod’s	176
Idun	184