Wherever possible, entries contain excerpts of reviews from scholarly and popular publications. These tales have proved to be among the most influential of all myths and legends, inspiring works such as Wagner's Ring Cycle and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The Prose Edda is closely related to the Poetic Edda, for which provides a survey of English translations here, and readers entirely new to Norse mythology can find a guide to getting started with the topic here.
In prose interspersed with powerful verse, the Edda shows the gods' tragic realization that the future holds one final cataclysmic battle, Ragnarok, when the world will be destroyed. The Codex Regius is dated to around 1270 but was only discovered in 1643, when it came into the possession of an Icelandic bishop named Brynjlfur Sveinsson.
Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves and elves struggle for survival. The Poetic Edda is a collection of mythological poems by unknown authors that mainly come from a manuscript known as the Codex Regius, which is Latin for the King’s Book.
The most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source of Norse mythology
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