The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda - Snorri Sturluson

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has bequeathed to it. Thus does it grow greater and richer with each new generation. The past is the mirror that reflects the future.

      R. B. ANDERSON.

      University of Wisconsin,

       Madison, Wis., September, 1879.

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Preface 5
Introduction 15
Foreword 33
THE FOOLING OF GYLFE.
CHAPTER I.
Gefjun’s Plowing 49
CHAPTER II.
Gylfe’s Journey to Asgard 51
CHAPTER III.
Of the Highest God 54
CHAPTER IV.
The Creation of the World 56
CHAPTER V.
The Creation (continued) 64
CHAPTER VI.
The First Works of the Asas—The Golden Age 69
CHAPTER VII.
On the Wonderful Things in Heaven 72
CHAPTER VIII.
The Asas 79
CHAPTER IX.
Loke and his Offspring 91
CHAPTER X.
The Goddesses (Asynjes) 97
CHAPTER XI.
The Giantess Gerd and Skirner’s Journey 101
CHAPTER XII.
Life in Valhal 104
CHAPTER XIII.
Odin’s Horse and Frey’s Ship 109
CHAPTER XIV.
Thor’s Adventures 113
CHAPTER XV.
The Death of Balder 131
CHAPTER XVI.
Ragnarok 140
CHAPTER XVII.
Regeneration 147
Afterword to the Fooling of Gylfe 151
BRAGE’S TALK
CHAPTER I.
Æger’s Journey to Asgard 152
CHAPTER II.
Idun and her Apples 155
CHAPTER III.
How Njord got Skade to Wife 158
CHAPTER IV.
The Origin of Poetry 160
Afterword to Brage’s Talk 166
EXTRACTS FROM THE POETICAL DICTION.
Thor and Hrungner 169
Thor’s Journey to Geirrod’s 176
Idun 184