The Poetic Edda

434 Pages·1928·19.066 MB·English

by  Lee M. Hollander (transl.)

THE POETIC EDDA
Translated With an Introduction
and Explanatory Notes
BY
LEE M. HOLLANDER, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages in the University of Texas
PUBLISHED BY
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
University of Texas Press
19 2 8
Copyright, 1928
By
The University of Texas

CONTENTS
General Introduction________________________________ vii
The Prophecy of the Seeress _____________________ 1
The Sayings of Hór ______________________________ 17
The Lay of Vafthrúthnir _________________________ 48
The Lay of Grimnir______________________________ 61
The Lay of Skirnir _______________________________ 75
The Lay of Hárbarth _____________________________ 85
The Lay of Hymir ________________________________ 97
The Flyting of Loki ______________________________ 105
The Lay of Thrym_________________________________ 121
The Lay of Alvis __________________________________ 127
Baldr’s Dreams ____________________________________ 136
The Lay of R ig____________________________________ 140
The Lay of Hyndla ________________________________ 150
The Short ‘Seeress’ Prophecy’ ____________________ 159
The Lay of Svipdag________________________________ 163
The Spell of Gróa __________________________ 165
The Lay of Fiolsvith ________________________ 168
The Lay of Grotti _________________________________ 179
The Lay of Volund ________________________________ 186
The Helgi Lays ----------------------------------------------------- 196
The Lay of Helgi Hiorvarthsson _____________ 197
The First Lay of Helgi the Hunding-Slayer___ 211
The Second Lay of Helgi the Hunding-Slayer__ 223
Sinfiotli’s Death ___________________________________ 238
The Prophecy of Gripir ----------------------------- 240
The Lay of Regin _________________________________ 252
The Lay of Fáfnir ___________________________ __— 261
The Lay of Sigrdrifa ---------------------------------------------- 273
The Great Lacuna____________________________________ 283
Fragment of a Sigurth Lay ------------------------------------ 285
The First Lay of Guthrún __________________________ 290
For a note on pronunciation see p. 386.
The Short Lay of Sigurth -------------------------------------- 295
Brynhild’s Ride to Hel ------------------------------------------- 307
The Fall of the Niflungs___________________________ 311
The Second (or Old) Lay of Guthrún ______________ 312
The Third Lay of Guthrún ________________________ 321
The Plaint of Oddrún ____________________________ 324
The Lay of Atli ___________________________________ 331
The Greenlandish Lay of Atli ______________________ 343
Guthrún’s Lament _________________________________ 369
The Lay of Hamthir _____________________ 375
The Catalogue of Dwarfs __________________________ 383
Abbreviations______________________________________ 385
Index ______________________________________________ 387