THE POETIC EDDA
Henry Adams Bellows translation
TRANSLATED FROM THE ICELANDIC WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY HENRY ADAMS BELLOWS
TWO VOLUMES IN ONE

NEW YORK
THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1923
Copyright, 1923, by The American-Scandinavian Foundation
C. S. Peterson, The Regan Press, Chicago, U. S. A.
This series of Scandinavian Classics is published by The American-Scandinavian Foundation in the belief that greater familiarity with the chief literary monuments of the North will help Americans to a better understanding of Scandinavians, and thus serve to stimulate their sympathetic coöperation to good ends.
To George Lyman Kittredge
SCANDINAVIAN CLASSICS VOLUMES XXI AND XXII
THE POETIC EDDA

ESTABLISHED BY NIELS POULSON
THIS VOLUME IS ENDOWED IN PART BY CHARLES S. PETERSON OF CHICAGO