THE YOUNGER EDDA:
also called
SNORRE'S EDDA, OR THE PROSE EDDA.
An English Version of the Foreword; The Fooling of Gylfe, The Afterword; Brage's Talk, The Afterword to Brage's Talk, and the Important Passages in the Poetical Diction (Skaldskaparmal).
with an
Introduction, Notes, Vocabulary, and Index.
By RASMUS B. ANDERSON, LL.D.,
Formerly Professor of the Scandinavian Languages in the University of Wisconsin, Ex-U.S. Minister to Denmark, Author of "America Not Discovered By Columbus," "Norse Mythology," "Viking Tales Of The North," etc.
Chicago
Scott, Foresman and Company
Copyright, 1879,
By S. C. Griggs and Company.
Press of
The Henry O. Shepard Co.
Chicago.
To
HON. THOS. F. BAYARD,
Ambassador to the Court of St. James, in Grateful Recollection of Pleasant Official Relations.
PREFACE.
In the beginning, before the heaven and the earth and the sea were created, the great abyss Ginungagap was without form and void, and the spirit of Fimbultyr moved upon the face of the deep, until the ice-cold rivers, the Elivogs, flowing from Niflheim, came in contact with the dazzling flames from Muspelheim. This was before Chaos.
And Fimbultyr said: Let the melted drops of vapor quicken into life, and the giant Ymer was born in the midst of Ginungagap. He was not a god, but the father of all the race of evil giants. This was Chaos.
And Fimbultyr said: Let Ymer be slain and le…