The Prose Edda

By Anderson, Rasmus Björn

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Title:	The Prose Edda
Author:	Anderson, Rasmus Björn
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Excerpt
THE PROSE. EDDA. Introduction: The records of our Teutonic past have hitherto received but slight attention from the English?speaking branch of the great world?ash Ygdrasil. This indifference is the more deplorable, since a knowledge of our heroic forefathers would naturally operate as a most powerful means of keeping alive among us, and our posterity, that spirit of courage, enterprise and independence for which the old Teutons were so distinguished. The religion of our ancestors forms an important chapter in the history of the childhood of our race, and this fact has induced us to offer the public an English translation of the Eddas. The purely mythological portion of the Elder Edda was translated and published by A.S. Cottle, in Bristol, in 1797, and the whole work was translated by Benjamin Thorpe, and published in London in 1866. Both these works are now out of print. Of the Younger Edda we have likewise had two translations into English, ?the first by Dasent in 1842, the second by Blackwell, in his edition of Mallet?s Northern Antiquities in 1847. The former has long been out of print, the latter is a poor imitation of Dasent?s. Both of them are very incomplete. These four books constitute all the Edda literature we have had in the English language, excepting of course, single lays and chapters translated by Gray, Henderson, W. Taylor, Herbert, Jamieson, Pigott, William and Mary Howitt, and others.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: THE PROSE EDDA, 1 -- Preface, 2 -- Introduction, 4 -- Forward, 9 -- Chapter 1. The Fooling Of Gylfe, 13 -- Chapter 2. Gylfe's Journey to Asgard, 14 -- Chapter 3. Of the Highest God, 15 -- Chapter 4. The Creation Of The World, 16 -- Chapter 4. The Creation Of The World, 18 -- Chapter 5. The Creation -- ?(continued), 20 -- Chapter 6. The First Works of the Asas. The Golden Age, 22 -- Chapter 7. On the Wonderful Things in Heaven, 24 -- Chapter 8: The Asas, 27 -- Chapter 8: The Asas, 30 -- Chapter 9: Loki and His Offspring, 32 -- Chapter 10: The Goddesses (Asynjes), 34 -- Chapter 11: The Giantess Gerd and Skirnir's Journey, 35 -- Chapter 12: Life in Valhal, 36 -- Odin's Horse and Frey's Ship, 38 -- Chapter 14: Thor's Adventures, 39 -- Chapter 15: The Death of Balder, 44 -- Chapter 16: Ragnarok, 46 -- Chapter 17: Regeneration, 51 -- Chapter 18: To the Fooling of Gylfe, 53 -- Brage's Talk: Chapter 1. AEger's Journey To Asgard, 53 -- Brage's Talk: Chapter 2. Idun and Her Apples, 53 -- Brage's Talk: Chapter 3. How Njord Got Skade To Wife, 54 -- Brage's Talk: Chapter 4. The Origin of Poetry, 55 -- Brage's Talk: Chapter 5. Afterword, 56 -- Extracts From the Poetical Diction (Skaldskaparmal) Thor and Hrungner, 57 -- Extracts From the Poetical Diction (Skaldskaparmal). Thor's Journey To Geirrod's, 60 -- Extracts From the Poetical Diction (Skaldskaparmal). Idun, 64 -- Extracts From the Poetical Diction (Skaldskaparmal). AEger's Feast, 67 -- Extracts From the Poetical Diction (Skaldskaparmal). Loke's Wager With the Dwarves, 68 -- Extracts From the Poetical Diction (Skaldskaparmal). The Niflungs and Gjukungs, 69 -- Extracts From the Poetical Diction (Skaldskaparmal). Menja and Fenja, 73 -- Extracts From the Poetical Diction (Skaldskaparmal). The Grottesong, 74 -- Extracts From the Poetical Diction (Skaldskaparmal). Rolf Krake, 78 -- Extracts From the Poetical Diction (Skaldskaparmal). Hogne and Hild, 79 -- THE FOOLING OF GYLFE, 80 -- Chapter 1, 80 -- Chapter 2, 80 -- Chapter 3, 81 -- Notes, 83 -- Chapter 4, 84 -- Chapter 5, 84 -- Chapter 6, 85 -- Notes, 85 -- THE PROSE EDDA -- i