Principal Works

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*Völuspá [The Sibyl's Prophecy]

Hávamál [Sayings of the High One]

Vafþrúðnismál [The Lay of Vafthrudnir]

Grimnismál [The Lay of Grimnir]

Skírnismál [Skirnir's Journey]

Hárbarðzlióð [The Lay of Harbard]

Hymisqviða [The Lay of Hymir]

Lokasenna [The Insolence of Loki]

Þrymsqviða [The Lay of Thrym]

Völundarqviða [The Lay of Volund]

Alvíssmál [The Lay of Alvis]

Baldrs draumar [Balder's Dreams]

Rígsmál [The Lay of Rig]

Helgaqviða Hundingsbana in fyrri [The First Lay of Helgi Hunding's Bane]

Helgaqviða Hjörvardzsonar [The Lay of Helgi Hjorvard's Son]

Grípisspá [The Prophecy of Gripir]

Reginsmál [The Lay of Regin]

Fáfnismál [The Lay of Fafnir]

Sigrdrifomál [The Lay of Sigrdrifa]

Brot at Sigurðarqviða [Fragment of a Sigurd Lay]

Guðrúnarqviða in fyrsta [The Lay of Gudrun]

Sigurðarqviða in scamma [The Short Lay of Sigurd]

Helreið Brynhildar [Brynhild's Journey to Hel]

Guðrúnarqviða önnor [The Second Lay of Gudrun]

Guðrúnarqviða in þriðia [The Third Lay of Gudrun]

Oddrúnargrátr [Oddrun's Lament]

Atlaqviða [The Lay of Atli]

Atlamál in groenlenzco [The Greenland Lay of Atli]

Guðrúnarhvöt [Gudrun's Chain of Woes]

Hamðismál [The Lay of Hamdir]

Gróttasöngr [The Mill Song]

The Poetic Edda (translated by Lee M. Hollander) 1928

The Elder Edda: A Selection (translated by Paul B. Taylor and W. H. Auden.) 1969

Poems of the Vikings: The Elder Edda (translated by Patricia Terry) 1969

The Poetic Edda (translated by Ursula Dronke) 1969

The Poetic Edda (translated by Carolyne Larrington) 1996

*Accurate dating of Eddic verse remains elusive. While dates ranging from before 800 to 1270 (the approximate date of the earliest extant manuscript of the Elder Edda) have been proposed, the poems are generally thought to have been composed roughly between the ninth and the eleventh centuries a.d. Individual poems above are arranged in the order they appear in surviving manuscripts.

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