THE PROSE EDDA - THE YOUNGER EDDA

The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda or, historically, simply as Edda, is an Old Norse work of literature written in Iceland during the early 13th century. The work is often assumed to have been written, or at least compiled, by the Icelandic scholar, lawspeaker, and historian Snorri Sturluson c. 1220. It is considered the fullest and most detailed source for modern knowledge of Germanic mythology.

It begins with a euhemerized Prologue, a section on the Norse cosmogony, pantheon, and myths. This is followed by three distinct books: Gylfaginning (consisting of approximately 20,000 words), Skáldskaparmál (approximately 50,000 words), and Háttatal (approximately 20,000 words). Seven manuscripts, dating from c. 1300 to 1600, have independent textual value. Sturluson planned the collection as a textbook. It was to enable Icelandic poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, and to grasp the meaning behind the many kenningar (compounds) that were used in skaldic poetry.

The Prose Edda was originally referred to as simply Edda, but was later titled the Prose Edda in modern collections to distinguish it from the collections titled Poetic Edda that are largely based on Codex Regius, a collection of poetry composed after Edda in 13th century Iceland. At that time, versions of the Edda were well known in Iceland, but scholars speculated that there once was an Elder Edda which contained the poems which Snorri quotes in his Edda.

Contents of this app include:

-Preface
-Introduction
-Foreword

The Fooling of Gylfe:
-Chapter I. Gefjun’s Plowing
-Chapter II. Gylfe’s Journey to Asgard
-Chapter III. Of the Highest God
-Chapter IV. The Creation of the World
-Chapter V. The Creation (continued)
-Chapter VI. The First Works of the Asas - The Golden Age
-Chapter VII. On the Wonderful Things in Heaven
-Chapter VIII. The Asas
-Chapter IX. Loke and his Offspring
-Chapter X. The Goddesses (Asynjes)
-Chapter XI. The Giantess Gerd and Skirner’s Journey
-Chapter XII. Life in Valhal
-Chapter XIII. Odin’s Horse and Frey’s Ship
-Chapter XIV. Thor’s Adventures
-Chapter XV. The Death of Balder
-Chapter XVI. Ragnarok
-Chapter XVII. Regeneration
-Afterword to the Fooling of Gylfe

Brage's Talk:
-Chapter I. Æger’s Journey to Asgard
-Chapter II. Idun and her Apples
-Chapter III. How Njord got Skade to Wife
-Chapter IV. The Origin of Poetry
-Afterword to Brage’s Talk

Extracts from the Poetical Diction:
-Thor and Hrungner
-Thor’s Journey to Geirrod’s
-Idun
-Æger’s Feast
-Loke’s Wager with the Dwarfs
-The Niflungs and Gjukungs
-Menja and Fenja
-The Grottesong
-Rolf Krake
-Hogne and Hild

Notes:
-Enea
-Herikon
-The Historical Odin
-Fornjot and the Settlement of Norway
-Notes to the Fooling of Gylfe
-Note on the Niflungs and Gjukungs
-Note on Menja and Fenja
-Why the Sea is Salt

-Vocabulary

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