The Younger Edda Also called Snorre Edda or The Prose Edda eBook Snorri Sturluson Rasmus Björn Anderson
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The Younger Edda Also called Snorre Edda or The Prose Edda eBook Snorri Sturluson Rasmus Björn Anderson
(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.
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The Younger Edda Also called Snorre Edda or The Prose Edda eBook Snorri Sturluson Rasmus Björn Anderson Reviews
This is our source of most our knowledge on Norse mythology. It is separated into three larger parts...
The first is basically an explanation to Christian authorities. Unfortunately, this was written AFTER this mythology was the mainstream religion of the Norse. By the time it was recorded by Snorri (Snorre) Christianity had been spread to this area and to write this book would have been blasphemous without the explanation at the beginning. this is why people may see it as odd, as Andrew, a previous reviewer noted.
The second part is the source of the best content, with the stories of the Norse that we have all become so fond of.
The third part is a sad effort by Snorri to tell the king of Norway (I think that was it) how awesome he was. It didn't work, as Snorri was killed under commands of that king later on. Because of this bad writing, many believe Snorri didn't write the second part, and that he just compiled information provided by others. If you are familiar with the Poetic Edda, or the Older Edda, you will see that Snorri directly quoted from it's text.
These are great stories. Pick it up, and skip to the second part if you can.
Very well made book. My husband loved his Christmas gift!
Haven't had a chance to get too far into this one, but just like the Poetic Edda, there are several different translation/interpretations of The Prose Edda, and I have been told that it is one of the most used, so a second hand rating is still going to be close.
If I read it and find it not to be a good translation I will re-score it.
Not the perfect bed-time narrative the translation mirrors the old-Icelandic narrative accurately, and for research and documentation, this is great. The stories are not in an intuitive order, and some "wikipedia" is helpful prior to reading. For "family time", you need some adjustment when reading this to an 8-year old boy.
No page numbers. Very small text with hardly any white space, and a bit difficult to read. Awkward insertion of the definitions of Old Norse terms. While I am happy with the text, I am honestly disappointed with the formatting and presentation of it. It's like it was edited in Notepad.
Opened this today and was disappointed to see it has one of those rubber-coated covers that are trendy right now. Rubberized coatings on products tend to break down and degrade into a sticky mess after a few years. No way am I putting this on the shelf in contact with the rest of the mythology books. May be worth rebinding, will have to decide after reading if the content is worth the effort. Annoyed that publishers aren't thinking about the life of the book beyond the sale with this trend.
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.
(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 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.
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