SCANDINAVIAN CLASSICS
VOLUME V

THE PROSE EDDA

THE PROSE EDDA
BY
SNORRI STURLUSON

TRANLSATED FROM THE ICELANDIC
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
ARTHUR GILCHRIST BRODEUR, Ph. D.
Instructor in English Philology in the University of California

NEW YORK
THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1916,1923

C. S. Peterson, Regin Press, Chicago, U. S. A.

TO
WILLIAM HENRY SCHOFIELD
WHO MADE THE WORK POSSIBLE
THE TRANSLATOR
RENDERS THE TRIBUTE OF
THIS BOOK

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION……………………………………….ix
PROLOGUE……………………………………………….1
GYLFAGINNING………………………………………..11
SKÁLDSKAPARMÁL…………………………………..87
INDEX……………………………………………………….243