Mythological and heroic poems · 1866

The Elder Edda

The Poetic Edda of Sæmund

by Anonymous (Old Norse)

Translated by Benjamin Thorpe (1866)

The Old Norse mythological and heroic lays of the Codex Regius in Benjamin Thorpe's 1866 prose translation, with the manuscripts' own prose links kept in place.

Contents · 39 parts

• Voluspo64 lines
• Vafthruthnismolabout 110 lines
• Grimnismol57 lines
• Baldrs Draumar31 lines
• Hovamolabout 140 lines
• Odin's Rune Song27 lines
• Hymiskvitha42 lines
• Thrymskvitha37 lines
• Alvissmol72 lines
• Harbarthsljothabout 120 lines
• Skirnismol69 lines
• Rigsthula46 lines
• Lokasennaabout 130 lines
• The Lay of Fiolsvith99 lines
• Hyndluljoth57 lines
• The Incantation of Groa22 lines
• The Song of the Sun83 lines
• Völundarkvitha43 lines
• Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar83 lines
• Helgakvitha Hundingsbana I63 lines
• Helgakvitha Hundingsbana II83 paragraphs
• Sinfiotli's End2 paragraphs
• Gripisspoabout 100 lines
• Reginsmol45 lines
• Fafnismol86 lines
• Sigrdrifumol48 lines
• Fragments of the Lay of Sigurd and Brynhild15 paragraphs
• Sigurtharkvitha en Skamma68 lines
• Brot af Sigurtharkvithu23 lines
• Guthrunarkvitha I29 lines
• Helreith Brynhildar18 lines
• The Slaughter of the Niflungs1 paragraph
• Guthrunarkvitha II, en Forna44 lines
• Guthrunarkvitha III13 lines
• Oddrunargratr40 lines
• Atlakvitha en Grönlenzka43 paragraphs
• Atlamol en Grönlenzku129 paragraphs
• Guthrunarhvot22 lines
• Hamthesmol33 lines

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