the poetic edda stories of the norse gods and heroes

This use of the word Edda is incorrect and unhistorical, though convenient and sanctioned by the use of several centuries. The Younger Edda is a prose paraphrase of, and commentary on, these poems and others which are lost, together withĪ treatise on metre, written by the historian Snorri Sturluson about 1220. MS., known as the Codex Regius, discovered in Iceland in 1642 to these are added other poems of similar character from other Thirty poems, mythic and heroic in substance, interspersed with short pieces of prose, which survives in a thirteenth-century The so-called Elder Edda is a collection of some In England saw the destruction of nearly all traces of the heathen system. The Icelandic Eddas are the only vernacular record of Germanic heathendom as it developed during the four centuries which Of the name Tyr, where I use the form which has become conventional in English. r of the nominative singular masculine is also omitted, whether it appears as -r or is assimilated to a preceding consonant (as in Odinn, Eysteinn, Heindall, Egill) in the Norse form, with the single exception Marks of vowel-length are in all cases omitted. The spirants þ and ð are represented by th and d, as being more familiar to readers unacquainted with the original. Some explanation is needed of the form of spelling I have adopted in transcribing Norse proper names. Published by David Nutt, at the Sign of the Phœnix, Long Acre, London

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