The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems dating from the

thirteenth century CE. Though no two translators or editors seem to agree on

precisely which poems should be included in this collection, the Elder Edda is the
most important source for Norse mythology and legends of northern European
heroes. The later "Younger" or Prose Edda, gathered or transcribed by Snorri
(Bray Translation)

The Elder Edda

Sturluson in about 1220 CE, is the other such source, largely drawing on and even
directly quoting from the poetic material of the Elder Edda. Even the uninitiated
reader of the Eddas may find them familiar in sound, rhythm, and content because
of their considerable influence on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and his Middle Earth
fantasies. Though the Bray edition is entitled "The Elder or Poetic Edda, commonly
known as Sæmund's Edda," even at the time of its 1908 publication no scholar still
believed that the twelfth-century Icelandic scholar Sæmundur Sigfússon had
(Bray Translation)

anything to do with the Poetic Edda; whoever actually compiled and transcribed
these old oral myths is unknown to modern scholarship. This recording is of Part I
The Elder Edda

(Mythological Poems), including elegant introductory material by translator and

scholar Olive Bray. It does not include the Icelandic of the facing pages in this
parallel bilingual edition. ( Expatriate)
Read by expatriate. Total running time: 6:39:57

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