I enjoyed learning about the Norse poetic style of "kenning," where the point is to pile image upon image to make a complicated chain of meaning. There's no mention at all of him being in the Avengers. I also learned that much of what I learned from reading Thor comics when I was 13 isn't totally accurate. And that mead started as god spit, then turned into blood, and ended up being farted out of Odin's ass, which is, by a train of logic that actually kinda makes sense when you read it, why it's called the drink of poets. I learned, for instance, that your legs may hump each other and produce a child while you're asleep, which is something I'm going to be more careful about from now on. It's where we got most of our knowledge of Norse mythology today, and it's wicked awesome. The Edda is a collection of Norse myths, written in the 13th century by a dude named Snorri.
This edition also includes detailed notes and appendices. This new translation by Jesse Byock captures the strength and subtlety of the original, while his introduction sets the tales fully in the context of Norse mythology. These tales from the pagan era have proved to be among the most influential of all myths and legends, inspiring modern works as diverse as Wagner's Ring Cycle and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. In clear prose interspersed with powerful verse, the Edda provides unparalleled insight into the gods' tragic realisation that the future holds one final cataclysmic battle, Ragnarok, when the world will be destroyed. It also preserves the oral memory of heroes, warrior kings and queens.
Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves and elves struggle for survival. The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology.
'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?'
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