All the poems quoted in the Younger Edda have in this edition been traced back to their sources in the Elder Edda and elsewhere.
Where the notes seem to the reader insufficient, we must refer him to our Norse Mythology, where he will, we trust, find much of the additional information he may desire.
Well aware that our work has many imperfections, and begging our readers to deal generously with our shortcomings, we send the book out into the world with the hope that it may aid some young son or daughter of Odin to find his way to the fountains of Urd and Mimer and to Idun’s rejuvenating apples. The son must not squander, but husband wisely, what his father has accumulated. The race must cherish and hold fast and add to the thought that the past has bequeathed to it. Thus does it grow greater and richer with each new generation. The past is the mirror that reflects the future.
R. B. ANDERSON.
University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wis., September, 1879.
| Preface | 5 |
| Introduction | 15 |
| Foreword | 33 |
| THE FOOLING OF GYLFE. | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Gefjun’s Plowing | 49 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Gylfe’s Journey to Asgard | 51 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Of the Highest God | 54 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| The Creation of the World | 56 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| The Creation (continued) | 64 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| The First Works of the Asas—The Golden Age | 69 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| On the Wonderful Things in Heaven | 72 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| The Asas | 79 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Loke and his Offspring | 91 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| The Goddesses (Asynjes) | 97 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| The Giantess Gerd and Skirner’s Journey | 101 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| Life in Valhal | 104 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| Odin’s Horse and Frey’s Ship | 109 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| Thor’s Adventures | 113 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| The Death of Balder | 131 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| Ragnarok | 140 |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| Regeneration | 147 |
| Afterword to the Fooling of Gylfe | 151 |
| BRAGE’S TALK | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Æger’s Journey to Asgard | 152 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Idun and her Apples | 155 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| How Njord got Skade to Wife | 158 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| The Origin of Poetry | 160 |
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