The Poetic Edda, Volume I: Heroic Poems

Translator: Henry Adams Bellows
Date Published: 1936

The Poetic Edda is an ancient collection of anonymous poems attributed to the Norse people. Several historical copies of the Poetic Edda exist, but its most influential manuscript is the Codex Regius, which is believed to have been written within the 1270’s.

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