The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson & The Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

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Author

Snorri Sturluson, 1179?-1241

Title

The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

Credits

Produced by Paul Murray, Stephen Schulze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This ebook was produced using images from the University of Georgia Libraries.

Language

English

LoC Class

PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures

Subject

Scalds and scaldic poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

14726

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14726

Release Date

January 18, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE ELDER EDDAS — OF SAEMUND SIGFUSSON. — BY
2. 2.BENJAMIN THORPE, — AND THE — YOUNGER EDDAS — OF SNORRE STURLESON. — BY
3. 3.I.A. BLACKWELL.
4. 4.LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURES. — (ELDER AND YOUNGER EDDAS.)
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.PREFACE. — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.INTRODUCTION TO THE VOLUSPA.
8. 8.VÖLUSPÂ. THE VALA'S PROPHECY. — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.THE LAY OF VAFTHRUDNIR.
10. 10.THE LAY OF GRIMNIR. — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.THE LAY OF VEGTAM, OR BALDR'S DREAMS.
12. 12.THE HIGH ONE'S [14] LAY. — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.ODIN'S RUNE-SONG. [24] — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.THE LAY OF HYMIR. — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.THE LAY OF THRYM, OR THE HAMMER RECOVERED.
16. 16.THE LAY OF THE DWARF ALVIS. — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.THE LAY OF HARBARD. — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.THE JOURNEY OR LAY OF SKIRNIR. — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.THE LAY OF RIG. — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.OEGIR'S COMPOTATION, OR LOKI'S ALTERCATION. — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.THE LAY OF FIOLSVITH.
22. 22.THE LAY OF HYNDLA. — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.THE INCANTATION OF GROA.
24. 24.THE SONG OF THE SUN. — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.THE LAY OF VOLUND. — FOOTNOTES:
26. 26.THE LAY OF HELGI HIORVARD'S SON. — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.THE FIRST LAY OF HELGI HUNDINGCIDE. — FOOTNOTES:
28. 28.THE SECOND LAY OF HELGI HUNDINGCIDE. — FOOTNOTES:
29. 29.SINFIOTLI'S END.
30. 30.THE FIRST LAY OF SIGURD FAFNICIDE, OR GRIPIR'S PROPHECY.
31. 31.THE SECOND LAY OF SIGURD FAFNICIDE. — FOOTNOTES:
32. 32.THE LAY OF FAFNIR. — FOOTNOTES:
33. 33.THE LAY OF SIGRDRIFA. — FOOTNOTES:
34. 34.FRAGMENTS OF THE LAY OF SIGURD AND BRYNHILD. [73] — FOOTNOTES:
35. 35.THE THIRD LAY OF SIGURD FAFNICIDE. — FOOTNOTES:
36. 36.FRAGMENTS OF THE LAY OF BRYNHILD.
37. 37.THE FIRST LAY OF GUDRUN. — FOOTNOTES:
38. 38.BRYNHILD'S HEL-RIDE. — FOOTNOTES:
39. 39.THE SLAUGHTER OF THE NIFLUNGS.
40. 40.THE SECOND LAY OF GUDRUN. — FOOTNOTES:
41. 41.THE THIRD LAY OF GUDRUN. — FOOTNOTES:
42. 42.ODDRUN'S LAMENT. — FOOTNOTES:
43. 43.THE LAY OF ATLI. — FOOTNOTES:
44. 44.THE GROENLAND LAY OF ATLI. — FOOTNOTES:
45. 45.GUDRUN'S INCITEMENT. — FOOTNOTES:
46. 46.THE LAY OF HAMDIR. — FOOTNOTES:
47. 47.THE YOUNGER EDDAS OF STURLESON. — THE DELUDING OF GYLFI. — GEFJON'S PLOUGHING. [125] — GYLFI'S JOURNEY TO ASGARD. — OF THE SUPREME DEITY. — OF THE PRIMORDIAL STATE OF THE UNIVERSE. — ORIGIN OF THE HRIMTHURSAR, OR FROST-GIANTS. — OF THE COW AUDHUMLA, AND THE BIRTH OF ODIN. — HOW THE SONS OF BOR SLEW YMIR AND FROM HIS BODY MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH. — OF THE FORMATION OF THE FIRST MAN AND WOMAN. — OF NIGHT AND DAY. — OF THE SUN AND MOON. — OF THE WOLVES THAT PURSUE THE SUN AND MOON — OF THE WAY THAT LEADS TO HEAVEN. — THE GOLDEN AGE. — ORIGIN OF THE DWARFS. — OF THE ASH YGGDRASILL, MIMIR'S WELL., AND THE NORNS OR DESTINIES. — OF THE VARIOUS CELESTIAL REGIONS. — OF THE WIND AND THE SEASONS. — OF ODIN. — OF THOR. — OF BALDUR. — OF NJORD. — OF THE GOD FREY, AND THE GODDESS FREYJA. — OF TYR. — OF THE OTHER GODS. — HODUR THE BLIND, ASSASSIN OF BALDUR — OF LOKI AND HIS PROGENY. — BINDING THE WOLF FENIR — OF THE GODDESSES. — OF FREY AND GERDA. — OF THE JOYS OF VALHALLA. — OF THE HORSE SLEIPNIR. — OF THE SHIP SKIDBLADNIR. — THOR'S ADVENTURES ON HIS JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF THE GIANTS. — HOW THOR WENT TO FISH FOR THE MIDGARD SERPENT. — THE DEATH OF BALDUR THE GOOD. — BALDUR IN THE ABODE OF THE DEAD — THE FLIGHT AND PUNISHMENT OF LOKI. — OF RAGNAROK, OR THE TWILIGHT OE THE GODS, AND THE CONFLAGRATION OF THE UNIVERSE. — OF THE ABODES OF FUTURE BLISS AND MISERY. — THE RENOVATION OF THE UNIVERSE. — ÆGIR'S JOURNEY TO ASGARD. — IDUNA AND HER APPLES. — THE ORIGIN OF POETRY. — ODIN BEGUILES THE DAUGHTER OF BAUGI — FOOTNOTES:
48. 48.GLOSSARY.

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