This series of Scandinavian Classics is published by The American Scandinavian Foundation in the belief that greater familiarity with the chief literary monuments of the North will help Americans to a better understanding of Scandinavians, and thus serve to stimulate their sympathetic cooperation to good ends
SCANDINAVIAN CLASSICS
VOLUME V
THE PROSE EDDA
ESTABLISHED BY NIELS POULSON
THE PROSE EDDA
BY
SNORRI STURLUSON
TRANSLATED FROM THE ICELANDIC
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
ARTHUR GILCHRIST BRODEUR, Ph.D.
Instructor in English Philology in the University of California
NEW YORK
THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1916
Copyright, 1916, by The American-Scandinavian Foundation
D. B. Updike · The Merrymount Press · Boston · U. S. A.
TO
WILLIAM HENRY SCHOFIELD
WHO MADE THE WORK POSSIBLE
THE TRANSLATOR
RENDERS THE TRIBUTE OF
THIS BOOK
ABBREVIATIONS
Cl.-Vig. = the Cleasby-Vigfússon Icelandic-English Dictionary, Oxford, 1874.
Cod. Reg. = Codex Regius, one of the manuscripts in which Snorri's Edda is preserved.
Cod. Worm. = Codex Wormianus, another of the manuscripts.
Cod. Upsal. = Codex Upsaliensis, a third manuscript (U).
Yngl. S. = Ynglinga Saga.
Gylfag. = Gylfaginning.
Skálds. = Skáldskaparmál.
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