Have You Read the Edda?

[Blutwölfin]

Everyone is quoting the Hávamál, everyone knows stories of Thor and Loki, everyone has heard of Óðrerir - but have you actually read the Prose and Poetic Edda?

[Ryan Kirk]

I've only read the poetic all the way through. I don't have a copy of the prose Edda and I can't stand reading long texts online.

[Ælfhere]

I've read and enjoyed them both. The Prose Edda was more readable just because of how its organized, and I liked the Poetic Edda too but I'll definitely have to re-read it a few more times before I understand it all.

[Sigurd]

I've read both, although I only read the Prose Edda a few months ago, as I originally got my information concerning what was in it from the book "Odin" by Kayser-Langerhanß.

I must say that I enjoyed the poetic one more, but that's maybe me with my extraordinary reverence for poetry. The Prose Edda was concise, but I am not such a large fan of Snorri, I actually believe that he distorted quite a bit of our Lore, having been a Christian.

[Gagnraad]

Read them, have them right here next beside me, on my bookshelf

[nordicdusk]

Have not red them is there a site i can purchase them from not easy to find such books where i live.

[Sigurd]

Have not red them is there a site i can purchase them from not easy to find such books where i live.

Try Amazon.

[Mathieu]

Both.

It has to be read, and then read again

[nordicdusk]

Thanks i will check amazon.

[Sigurd]

I personally recommend the Lee M. Hollander translation for the Poetic Edda, and the Everyman edition for the Prose Edda; but if you read the Poetic Edda for the first time you are probably better off starting with the Carolyn Larrington translation, it's easier to understand for the lay.