The Elder Edda A Selection Author:Paul B. Taylor (Translator), W. H. Auden (Translator) The Poetic or Elder Edda is a compilation made about A.D. 1200 of earlier Icelandic poems on cosmology, mythology and the stories of Norse heroes. Together with the Prose or Younger Edda it is the chief source of our knowledge of Scandinavian mythology. — This new translation - the result of a collaboration between a distinguished scholar and a m... more »ajor poet who has always felt a deep instinctive sympathy for and affinity to the great masterpieces of Northern Europe - succeeds superbly in conveying the power, sharpness, and precision of the original. It is prefaced with a most helpful introduction by Professor Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor.« less