The Edda, Volume 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530946662)

The Icelandic Eddas are the only vernacular record of Germanic heathendom as it developed during the four centuries which in England saw the destruction of nearly all traces of the heathen system. The so-called Elder Edda is a collection of some thirty poems, mythic and heroic in substance, interspersed with short pieces of prose, which survives in a thirteenth-century MS., known as the Codex Regius, discovered in Iceland in 1642; to these are added other poems of similar character from other sources.

Author: L. Winifred Faraday
ISBN-10: 1530946662
ISBN-13: 9781530946662
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2016
Pages: 30
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.12lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.06d