Prose Edda

The Prose Edda, known also as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda () is an Icelandic manual of poetics which contains many stories from Norse mythology. Its purpose was to enable Icelandic poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, and to grasp the meaning behind the many kennings that were used in skaldic poetry.

The work was written by the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around 1220. Seven manuscripts, dating from around 1300 to around 1600, have independent textual value.

The Prose Edda opens with a Prologue and consists of three distinct books: the 'Gylfaginning (c 20,000 words), the Skáldskaparmál (c 50,000 words) and the Háttatal (c 20,000 words).

External links

The Prose Edda, translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, at sacred-texts.com
Critical editions of all major redactions of the Prose Edda in pdf format at septentrionalia.org
Edda Snorra Sturlusonar Old Norse text, Guðni Jónsson's edition.
, Rasmus B. Anderson's translation (1897)
, translated by Benjamin Thorpe (Elder Eddas) and I. A. Blackwell (Younger Eddas). (1906)
Prose Edda Arthur G. Brodeur's translation (1916)

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