# The poetic Edda

Author: Bellows, Henry Adams, 1885-1939 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73533

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+poetic+Edda+Bellows&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

At the beginning of the collection in the Codex Regius stands the Voluspo, the most famous and important, as it is likewise the most debated, of all the Eddic poems. Another version of it is found in a huge miscellaneous compilation of about the year 1300, the Hauksbok, and many stanzas are included in the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson. The order of the stanzas in the Hauksbok version differs materially from that in the Codex Regius, and in the published editions many experiments have been attempted in further rearrangements. On the whole, however, and allowing for certain interpolations, the order of the stanzas in the Codex Regius seems more logical than any of the wholesale “improveme...

## Chapters

- [VOLUME II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poetic-edda-73533/chapters/2/index.md)
- [VOLUME I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poetic-edda-73533/chapters/1/index.md)