The Elder Edda (Bray Translation)

LibriVox recording of The Elder Edda (Bray Translation) by Sæmund Sigfusson. (Translated by Olive Bray.) Read in English by Expatriate 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 Sturluson in about 1220 CE, is the other such source, largely drawing on and