The Prose Edda

This is a good book. But keep in mind, it's translated to old english, so it's hard to understand sometimes. I have to read it when the room is completely quiet so I can concentrate.

Hail the AllFather

Informative and put together great for beginners and experienced readers alike.

A paperback of the Prose Edda, which is what you searched for, because that's the only reason you got here. Happy reading.

(I assume that if you are reading the Prose Edda, you know what it is.)This is a translation by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur first published in 1916. It is written in olde-English-legendary, i.e. thee's, thou's, and ye's instead of "you." But is is still quite readable. I got it because I wanted a Kindle version to read on an airplane flight and I didn't want to carry my 1956 Young translation (on paper). The price was right and it sufficed. If you really want to dig into the Edda you should probably buy a newer translation, but this one is OK.

I love different mythologies and I have so many books on them but THIS has got to be my favorite. The way it describes and tells the story is unique and I love it. It isn't just an author telling this this and this but an author setting up a scene about a conversation between characters and one tells the story to the other.

This is a great way to get an otherwise difficult-to-obtain text. This is the Brodeur translation; this particular volume is an OCR scan, but -- unlike other OCR scans I've bought -- it's completely intelligible. That is to say that there are multiple originally-published-pages on one page in this edition, but it's easy to (clearly) see where the original page breaks were, and the footnotes are kept in originally-published-footer order. (I was traumatized by an OCR scan that I once paid way more money for only to find that there were no page breaks preserved in the scan and the footnotes were just arbitrarily slugged into the body of the text . . . This Isn't Like That.) The book you'll get is clean and nicely presented.

This edda is vwry Christian based and overwrites itself, otherwise a good read

Very interesting read

I am a speed reader by habit, but this stopped me in my tracks!! A lovely book and something i can digest gradually. I was recommended this as i have a motorbike called Loki and a trike called Frigg. Now i can get lots of information on the Norse gods and goddesses and Mythical beings. Many thanks!!!!

ouvrage indispensable pour connaître la mythologie nordique

Very good, but the print is very small and there are no page numbers, wich makes it a bit hard to remember where you were.

Seems like a pretty good read still. But not what I expected, its only a partial form, just the first part of 3. Plus the prologue is made into a more christianized version instead of the original ginnungagap story.