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SCANDINAVIAN CLASSICS
VOLUME V
THE PROSE EDDA
ESTABLISHED BY
NIELS POULSON
THE PROSE EDDA
BY
SNORRI STURLUSON
TRANSLATED FROM THE ICELANDIC
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
ARTHUR GILCHRIST BRODEUR, Ph.D.
Instructor in English Philology in the Uni'versity of California
NEW YORK
THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Copyright, igi6, by The ^mertcan-Scandinavian Foundation
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THIS BOOK
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ix
PROLOGUE I
GYLFAGINNING II
SKALDSKAPARMAL 87
INDEX 243
INTRODUCTION
THE life of Snorri Sturluson fell in a great but contradictory age, when all that was noble and spiritual in men seemed to promise social regeneration, and when bloody crimes and sordid am…