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Often appears with: translation and the transmission of texts · history and the writing of history · editorial method · edition scope · edda manuscripts · books, libraries, and learning
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“We would recommend our readers to omit the Forewords and Afterwords until they have perused the Fooling of Gylfe and Brage’s Speech.” Snorri Sturluson, The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The · precept
The preface continues by claiming the volume includes the most important parts of the Younger Edda in English, advising readers to skip forewords/afterwords, and describing editorial notes and sources.
These are the outlines of the Teutonic religion. Such were the doctrines established by Odin among our ancestors. Thus do we find it recorded in the Eddas of Iceland. The present volume contains all of the Younger Edda that can possibly be of any importance to English readers. In fact, it gives more than has ever before been presented in any translation into English, German or any of the modern Scandinavian tongues.…