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EDDA -- Edda Islandorum an. Chr. M.CC.XV Islandice conscripta per Snorronem Sturlae. Copenhagen: H. Gode, 1665. [Bound with:] Philosophia antiquissima Norvego-Danica dicta Volupsa quae pars Edda Saemundi, Edda Snorronis non brevi antiqvioris. Copenhagen: H. Gode, 1665. [And:] Ethica odini pars Edda Saemundi vocata Haavamaal unà cum ejusdem appendice appelato Runa Capitule. Copenhagen: H. Gode, 1665. 3 works in one volume, 4° (193 x 150mm). (First title lightly soiled, a little light spotting throughout, a few leaves with faint waterstain in outer margin.) Contemporary mottled calf (head and tail of spine chipped, lightly rubbed and a few scuff marks on sides).
FIRST EDITION of the great Icelandic sagas of Edda (Snorre-Edda), Volupsa and Havamal, containing tales from Nordic mythology. Volupsa is a powerful and moving poem describing the worlds creation, golden age and total destruction before starting new cycle. The Prose Edda includes rules of poetic diction and quotes extensively from the scaldic poems. It was originally referred to as simply the Edda, but was later called the Prose Edda to distinguish it from the Poetic Edda, a collection of anonymous poetry from earlier traditional sources compiled around the same time as the Prose Edda in 13th-century Iceland.
FIRST EDITION of the great Icelandic sagas of Edda (Snorre-Edda), Volupsa and Havamal, containing tales from Nordic mythology. Volupsa is a powerful and moving poem describing the worlds creation, golden age and total destruction before starting new cycle. The Prose Edda includes rules of poetic diction and quotes extensively from the scaldic poems. It was originally referred to as simply the Edda, but was later called the Prose Edda to distinguish it from the Poetic Edda, a collection of anonymous poetry from earlier traditional sources compiled around the same time as the Prose Edda in 13th-century Iceland.