THE YOUNGER EDDA:

ALSO CALLED

SNORRE’S EDDA, OR THE PROSE EDDA.

AN ENGLISH VERSION OF THE FOREWORD; THE FOOLING OF GYLFE,
THE AFTERWORD; BRAGE’S TALK, THE AFTERWORD
TO BRAGE’S TALK, AND THE IMPORTANT
PASSAGES IN THE POETICAL DICTION
(SKALDSKAPARMAL).

WITH AN

INTRODUCTION, NOTES, VOCABULARY, AND INDEX.

By RASMUS B. ANDERSON, LL.D.,

FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF THE SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES IN THE UNIVERSITYOF WISCONSIN, EX-U.S. MINISTER TO DENMARK, AUTHOR OF “AMERICA NOTDISCOVERED BY COLUMBUS,” “NORSE MYTHOLOGY,” “VIKING TALES OF THE NORTH,”ETC.

Chicago
Scott, Foresman and Company
1901

Copyright, 1879,
By S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY.

PRESS OF
THE HENRY O. SHEPARD CO.CHICAGO.

TO

HON. THOS. F. BAYARD,

AMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OF ST. JAMES, IN GRATEFUL
RECOLLECTION OF PLEASANT OFFICIAL
RELATIONS.

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PREFACE.

In the beginning, before the heavenand the earth and the sea were created, the great abyss Ginungagap waswithout form and void, and the spirit of Fimbultyr moved upon the faceof the deep, until the ice-cold rivers, the Elivogs, flowing fromNiflheim, came in contact with the dazzling flames from Muspelheim. Thiswas before Chaos.

And Fimbultyr said: Let the melted drops of vapor quicken into life,and the giant Ymer was born in the midst of Ginungagap. He was not agod, but the father of all the race of evil giants. This was Chaos.

And Fimbultyr said: Let Ymer be slain and let order be established.And straightway Odin and his brothers—the bright sons ofBure—gave Ymer a mortal wound, and from his body made they theuniverse; from his flesh, the earth; from his blood, the sea; from hisbones, the rocks; from his hair, the trees; from his skull, the vaultedheavens; from his eye-brows, the bulwark called Midgard. And the godsformed man and woman in their own image of two trees, and breathed intothem the breath of life. Ask and Embla became living souls, and theyreceived a garden in Midgard as a dwelling-place for themselves andtheir children until the end of time. This was Cosmos.

8 The world’s last day approaches. All bonds and fetters that bound theforces of heaven and earth together are severed, and the powers of goodand of evil are brought together in an internecine feud. Loke advanceswith the Fenris-wolf and the Midgard-serpent, his own children, with allthe hosts of the giants, and with Surt, who flings fire and flame overthe world. Odin advances with all the asas and all the blessedeinherjes. They meet, contend, and fall. The wolf swallows Odin

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