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AN
IDEA
OF THE
SECOND PART
OF THE
EDDA.
ALL the most important points of the
‘northern[1]’ Mythology have been
laid open in the preceding Dialogue, which
forms the First Part of the Edda. In the
Second Part, the Author changing his stile,
confines himself to the relation of several
adventures which had happened to these
Deities whom he hath been describing to
us. The ancient Scalds or Poets, are the
guides he follows; and his chief aim is to
explain the epithets and synonymous
expressions, which have been in a manner
consecrated in their language. The same
taste and mode of composition prevails every
where through this Second Part as in the
former: We have constantly Allegories, and
- ↑ Celtique, Fr.
