Translated by Patricia Terry. With an Introduction by Charles W. Dunn.
The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the "Poetic Edda". The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the "Codex Regius".
The poems are primarily lyrical rather than narrative. Terry's readable translation includes the magnificent cosmological poem Völuspá ("The Sibyl's Prophecy"), didactic poems concerned with mythology and the everyday conduct of life, and heroic poems, of which an important group is concerned with the story of Sigurd and Brynhild.
Author(s): Patricia Terry (transl.)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
Edition: Revised
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 1990
Language: English
Pages: 296
City: Philadelphia
Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface to the 1969 Edition
Introduction
Vǫluspá: Vǫluspá
Sayings of the High One: Hávamál
The Lay of Vafthrudnir: Vafþrúðnismál
The Lay of Grimnir: Grímnismál
Skirnir's Journey: Skírnismál
The Lay of Harbard: Hárbarðsljóð
The Lay of Hymir: Hymiskviða
The Insolence of Loki: Lokasenna
The Lay of Thrym: Þrymskviða
The Lay of Alvis: Alvíssmál
The Lay of Volund: Vǫlundarkviða
The Lay of Helgi Hjorvard's Son: Helgakviða Hjǫrvarðssonar
The First Lay of Helgi Hunding's Bane: Helga kviða Hundingsbana I
The Second Lay of Helgi Hunding's Bane: Helga kviða Hundingsbana II
The Prophecy of Gripir: Grípisspá
The Lay of Regin: Reginsmál
The Lay of Fafnir: Fáfnismál
The Lay of Sigrdrifa: Sigrdrífumál
Fragment of a Sigurd Lay: Brot af Sigurðarkviðu
The Grief of Gudrun: Guðrúnarkviða I
The Short Lay of Sigurd: Sigurðarkviða hin skamma
Brynhild's Journey to Hel: Helreið Brynhildar
The Second Lay of Gudrun: Guðrúnarkviða II
The Third Lay of Gudrun: Guðrúnarkviða III
Oddrun's Lament: Oddrúnargrátr
The Lay of Atli: Atlakviða
The Greenland Lay of Atli: Atlamál
Gudrun's Chain of Woes: Guðrúnarhvǫt
The Lay of Hamdir: Hamðismál
Balder's Dreams: Baldrs draumar
The Mill Song: Gróttasöngur
The Waking of Angantyr: from Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs
Glossary and Index of Proper Names
Bibliography of Works Cited
