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
- Wights and Ancestors
- The Poetic Edda, Dronke
- Norse Revival: Transformations of Germanic Neopaganism
- D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths
- The Prose Edda, Public Domain
- The Poetic Edda, Bellows
- The Poetic Edda, Crawford
- The Prose Edda, Faulkes
- Gesta Danorum, Elton
- Nordic Runes