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The poetic Edda

The poetic Edda

by Henry Adams Bellows

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Translator
Bellows, Henry Adams, 1885-1939
Title
The poetic Edda : Translated from the Icelandic with an introduction and notes
Original Publication
New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1923.
Credits
Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Language
English
LoC Class
PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject
Edda Sæmundar -- Translations into English
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 73533
Release Date
May 4, 2024
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE POETIC EDDA
  2. 2.CONTENTS 1
  3. 3.ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
  4. 4.GENERAL INTRODUCTION — WHAT IS THE POETIC EDDA? — THE ORIGIN OF THE EDDIC POEMS — THE EDDA AND OLD NORSE LITERATURE — PRESERVATION OF THE EDDIC POEMS — THE VERSE-FORMS OF THE EDDIC POEMS — PROPER NAMES — CONCLUSION
  5. 5.LAYS OF THE GODS
  6. 6.The Wise-Woman’s Prophecy — Introductory Note — NOTES
  7. 7.The Ballad of the High One — Introductory Note — NOTES
  8. 8.The Ballad of Vafthruthnir — Introductory Note — NOTES
  9. 9.The Ballad of Grimnir — Introductory Note — NOTES
  10. 10.The Ballad of Skirnir — Introductory Note — NOTES
  11. 11.The Poem of Harbarth — Introductory Note — NOTES
  12. 12.The Lay of Hymir — Introductory Note — NOTES
  13. 13.Loki’s Wrangling — Introductory Note — NOTES
  14. 14.The Lay of Thrym — Introductory Note — NOTES
  15. 15.The Ballad of Alvis — Introductory Note — NOTES
  16. 16.Baldr’s Dreams — Introductory Note — NOTES
  17. 17.The Song of Rig — Introductory Note — NOTES
  18. 18.The Poem of Hyndla — Introductory Note — NOTES
  19. 19.The Ballad of Svipdag — Introductory Note — NOTES
  20. 20.LAYS OF THE HEROES
  21. 21.The Lay of Völund — Introductory Note — NOTES
  22. 22.The Lay of Helgi the Son of Hjorvarth — Introductory Note — NOTES
  23. 23.The First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane — Introductory Note — NOTES
  24. 24.The Second Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane — Introductory Note — NOTES
  25. 25.Of Sinfjotli’s Death — Introductory Note — NOTE
  26. 26.Gripir’s Prophecy — Introductory Note — NOTES
  27. 27.The Ballad of Regin — Introductory Note — NOTES
  28. 28.The Ballad of Fafnir — Introductory Note — NOTES
  29. 29.The Ballad of The Victory-Bringer — Introductory Note — NOTES
  30. 30.Fragment of a Sigurth Lay — Introductory Note — NOTES
  31. 31.The First Lay of Guthrun — Introductory Note — NOTES
  32. 32.The Short Lay of Sigurth — Introductory Note — NOTES
  33. 33.Brynhild’s Hell-Ride — Introductory Note — NOTES
  34. 34.The Slaying of The Niflungs — Introductory Note — NOTE
  35. 35.The Second, or Old, Lay of Guthrun — Introductory Note — NOTES
  36. 36.The Third Lay of Guthrun — Introductory Note — NOTES
  37. 37.The Lament of Oddrun — Introductory Note — NOTES
  38. 38.The Greenland Lay of Atli — Introductory Note — NOTES
  39. 39.The Greenland Ballad of Atli — Introductory Note — NOTES
  40. 40.Guthrun’s Inciting — Introductory Note — NOTES
  41. 41.The Ballad of Hamther — Introductory Note — NOTES
  42. 42.PRONOUNCING INDEX OF PROPER NAMES
  43. 43.PRONOUNCING INDEX
  44. 44.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Encoding — Revision History — Corrections

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