Prose Edda (Annotated)

Snorri Sturluson's *Prose Edda*, composed in thirteenth-century Iceland, is at once a handbook of Old Norse poetics, a compendium of Scandinavian myth, and a sophisticated work of literary preservation. Its principal sections—*Gylfaginning*, *Skáldskaparmál*, and *Háttatal*—move from mythological narrative and cosmological speculation to discussions of poetic diction, kennings, meter, and exemplar...