Prose Edda (Annotated)

Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda is at once a handbook of skaldic poetics, a mythographic compendium, and one of the most influential gateways to pre-Christian Norse cosmology. Composed in thirteenth-century Iceland, it preserves narratives of Odin, Thor, Loki, the creation and destruction of the world, and the intricate diction of courtly verse. Its lucid prose frames archaic myth with Christian-era...