Poetic Edda Volume 2 "Lays of the Heros"

Although Bellows uses an archaic translation of proper names ,his translation preserves the 4-4 measure of the ancient poetry. The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, and from the early 19th century onwards has had a powerful influence on later Scandinavian literatures,...