The Younger Edda

The Younger Edda

Snorri Sturluson, icelandic historian, poet, and politician (1179-1241)


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

-01- ABOUT THIS BOOK

-02- PREFACE

-03- INTRODUCTION

-04- FOREWORD

-05- THE FOOLING OF GYLFE

-06- GEFJUN’S PLOWING

-07- GYLFE’S JOURNEY TO ASGARD

-08- OF THE HIGHEST GOD

-09- THE CREATION OF THE WORLD

-10- THE CREATION,CONTINUED

-11- THE FIRST WORKS OF THE ASAS. THE GOLDEN AGE

-12- ON THE WONDERFUL THINGS IN HEAVEN

-13- THE ASAS

-14- LOKE AND HIS OFFSPRING

-15- THE GODDESSES 

-16- THE GIANTESS GERD AND SKIRNER’S JOURNEY

-17- LIFE IN VALHAL

-18- ODIN’S HORSE AND FREY’S SHIP

-19- THOR’S ADVENTURES

-20- THE DEATH OF BALDER

-21- RAGNAROK

-22- REGENERATION

-23- BRAGE’S TALK

-24- ÆGER’S JOURNEY TO ASGARD

-25- IDUN AND HER APPLES

-26- HOW NJORD GOT SKADE TO WIFE

-27- THE ORIGIN OF POETRY

-28- THE FOOLING OF GYLFE

-29- THE NIFLUNGS AND GJUKUNGS

-30- MENJA AND FENJA

-31- WHY THE SEA IS SALT

-32- FOOTNOTES