Mythological and heroic lays · 1923

The Poetic Edda

Lays of the Gods and Lays of the Heroes, translated from the Icelandic with the stanza numbering of the standard editions

by Anonymous (Old Norse)

Translated by Henry Adams Bellows (1923)

The great Old Norse collection of mythological and heroic lays preserved in the Codex Regius, in Bellows's 1923 verse translation, with the Eddas' own prose links kept in place.

Contents · 33 parts

• Voluspoabout 270 lines
• Hovamolabout 720 lines
• Vafthruthnismolabout 280 lines
• Grimnismolabout 280 lines
• Skirnismolabout 210 lines
• Harbarthsljothabout 230 lines
• Hymiskvithaabout 160 lines
• Lokasennaabout 360 lines
• Thrymskvithaabout 140 lines
• Alvissmolabout 180 lines
• Baldrs Draumar67 lines
• Rigsthulaabout 200 lines
• Hyndluljothabout 200 lines
• Svipdagsmolabout 320 lines
• Völundarkvithaabout 200 lines
• Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonarabout 280 lines
• Helgakvitha Hundingsbana Iabout 240 lines
• Helgakvitha Hundingsbana IIabout 310 lines
• Gripisspoabout 270 lines
• Reginsmolabout 170 lines
• Fafnismolabout 240 lines
• Sigrdrifumolabout 190 lines
• Brot af Sigurtharkvithu87 lines
• Guthrunarkvitha Iabout 120 lines
• Sigurtharkvitha en Skammaabout 290 lines
• Helreith Brynhildar62 lines
• Guthrunarkvitha II, en Fornaabout 190 lines
• Guthrunarkvitha III45 lines
• Oddrunargratrabout 140 lines
• Atlakvitha en Grönlenzkaabout 190 lines
• Atlamol en Grönlenzkuabout 420 lines
• Guthrunarhvot97 lines
• Hamthesmolabout 120 lines

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