Project Description
The Poetic Edda, Volume I: Heroic Poems
Translator: Carolyne Larrington
Date Published: 1999, 2014
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.
In terms of complexity, Larrington’s translation of the Poetic Edda is a good middle-of-the-road option between Dr. Crawford’s simpler translation and Ursula Dronke’s scholarly translation.
Other Books
- Gesta Danorum, Elton
- Norse Revival: Transformations of Germanic Neopaganism
- The Poetic Edda, Crawford
- Encyclopedia of Norse and Germanic Folklore, Mythology, and Magic
- Seidways
- The Poetic Edda, Dronke
- Worshiping Loki
- D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths
- Nordic Runes
- Trolldom
