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The Poetic Edda (tr. Bellows)

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The Poetic Edda (1936)
Anonymous, translated by Henry Adams Bellows
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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

CONTENTS[1]

General Introduction
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
xi

Lays of the Gods

Voluspo
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
1
Hovamol
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
28
Vafthruthnismol
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
68
Grimnismol
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
84
Skirnismol
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
107
Harbarthsljoth
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
121
Hymiskvitha
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
138
Lokasenna
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
151
Thrymskvitha
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
174
Alvissmol
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
183
Baldrs Draumar
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
195
Rigsthula
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
201
Hyndluljoth
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
217
Svipdagsmol
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
234

Lays of the Heroes

Völundarkvitha
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
252
Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
269
Helgakvitha Hundingsbana I
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
290
Helgakvitha Hundingsbana II
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
309
Fra Dautha Sinfjotla
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
332
Gripisspo
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
337
Reginsmol
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
356
Fafnismol
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
370
Sigrdrifumol
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
386
Brot af Sigurtharkvithu
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
402
Guthrunarkvitha I
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
411
Sigurtharkvitha en Skamma
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
420
Helreith Brynhildar
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
442
Drap Niflunga
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
447
Guthrunarkvitha II, en Forna
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
450
Guthrunarkvitha III
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
465
Oddrunargratr
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
469
Atlakvitha en Grönlenzka
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
480
Atlamol en Grönlenzku
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
499
Guthrunarhvot
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
536
Hamthesmol
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
545

  1. For the phonetic spellings of the proper names see the Pronouncing Index.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The General Introduction mentions many of the scholars to whose work this translation owes a special debt. Particular reference, however, should here be made to the late William Henry Schofield, Professor of Comparative Literature in Harvard University and President of The American-Scandinavian Foundation, under whose guidance this translation was begun; to Henry Goddard Leach, for many years Secretary of The American-Scandinavian Foundation, and to William Witherle Lawrence, Professor of English in Columbia University and Chairman of the Foundation's Committee on Publications, for their assistance with the manuscript and the proofs; and to Hanna Astrup Larsen, the Foundation's literary secretary, for her efficient management of the complex details of publication.


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