Prose Edda

English-language translations of
Prose Edda
by Snorri Sturluson

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The Prose Edda, known also as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, is an Icelandic manual of poetics which contains many stories from Norse mythology. Its purpose was to enable Icelandic poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, and to grasp the meaning behind the many kennings that were used in skaldic poetry.

The work was written by the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around 1220. Seven manuscripts, dating from around 1300 to around 1600, have independent textual value.

English-language translations of Prose Edda include:

The Younger Edda, 1880 translation by Rasmus Bjørn Anderson.
The Elder Edda of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Edda of Snorre Sturleson, 1907 translation by Benjamin Thorpe.
The Prose Edda, 1916 translation by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur.

Prose Edda

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