Poetry

The poetic Edda

Subtitle: Translated from the Icelandic with an introduction and notes

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Literature Religion & mythology Poetry Mythology, Legends & Folklore

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Henry Adams Bellows translation en

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Table of contents

1. Front matter 2. THE POETIC EDDA 3. CONTENTS1 4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 5. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 6. The Wise-Woman’s Prophecy 7. The Ballad of the High One 8. The Ballad of Vafthruthnir 9. The Ballad of Grimnir 10. The Ballad of Skirnir 11. The Poem of Harbarth 12. The Lay of Hymir 13. Loki’s Wrangling 14. The Lay of Thrym 15. The Ballad of Alvis 16. Baldr’s Dreams 17. The Song of Rig 18. The Poem of Hyndla 19. The Ballad of Svipdag 20. The Lay of Völund 21. The Lay of Helgi the Son of Hjorvarth 22. The First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane 23. The Second Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane 24. Of Sinfjotli’s Death 25. Gripir’s Prophecy 26. The Ballad of Regin 27. The Ballad of Fafnir 28. The Ballad of The Victory-Bringer 29. Fragment of a Sigurth Lay 30. The First Lay of Guthrun 31. The Short Lay of Sigurth 32. Brynhild’s Hell-Ride 33. The Slaying of The Niflungs 34. The Second, or Old, Lay of Guthrun 35. The Third Lay of Guthrun 36. The Lament of Oddrun 37. The Greenland Lay of Atli 38. The Greenland Ballad of Atli 39. Guthrun’s Inciting 40. The Ballad of Hamther 41. PRONOUNCING INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 42. PRONOUNCING INDEX

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