The Edda, Volume 1

“Snow has snowed on me, rain has beaten me,” groans a Sibyl roused from her tomb. Odin has come to the gates of the underworld—and will not leave without an answer about the future.

In the Icelandic poems preserved in medieval manuscripts, the gods’ bright halls stand beneath the world-ash, while fate gathers beyond their walls. Lucy Winifred Faraday’s study of the Eddas opens with these stark, swift tales: Odin tests his wisdom against a giant with his head at stake; elsewhere, he arrives disguised at a foster-son’s hall and is bound between two fires. Creation, rivalries, bargains and prophecy draw the gods toward a doom they can glimpse but may not escape. When even Odin must ask what lies ahead, what can the Sibyl bring herself to tell him?

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