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WORKS The chief works in English in which information on ancient Scandinavian mythology and religion may be found are the following: —
G. Vigfusson and F. Y. Powell. — Corpus
Poeticum Boreale; the Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue. 2 vols. Oxford,
1883. B. Thorpe. — The Edda of Sæmund
the Learned. London, 1866. G. W. Dasent. — The Prose or
Younger Edda. Stockholm, 1842. I. A. Blackwell. — The Prose Edda
(in Mallet's Northern Antiquities). R. B. Anderson. — The Younger
Edda; also called Snorre's Edda or the Prose Edda. Chicago, 1880. R. B. Anderson. — Norse
Mythology; or the Religion of our Forefathers. Chicago, 1875. C. F. Keary. — Mythology of the
Eddas. London, 1882. (Miss) W. Faraday. — The Divine
Mythology of the North. London, 1902. (No. 12 of Nutt's Popular Studies
in Mythology, etc.) Grimm's Teutonic Mythology,
translated by Stallybrass. 3 vols. London, 1880-83. Rydberg's Teutonic Mythology,
translated by R. B. Anderson. London, 1889. S. Laing. — The Heimskringla, or
Chronicle of the Kings of Norway. London, 1844. R. B. Anderson. — Snorro's
Heimskringla, or the Sagas of the Norse Kings. (Revised edition of the
preceding.) London, 1889. W. Morris and E. Magnusson. — The
Heimskringla, or the Stories of the Kings of Norway. 4 vols. London,
1893-1906. (Vols. iii.-vi. of the Saga Library.) J. Sephton. — The Saga of King
Olaf Tryggwason. London, 1895. (Vol i. of Nutt's Northern Library.) W. Morris and E. Magnusson. — The Eyrbiggia Saga. London, 1892.
(Vol. ii. of the Saga Library.) G. Vigfusson and F. Y. Powell. — Origines
Islandicæ. 2 vols. Oxford, 1905. Mallet's Northern Antiquities.
(Bohn's Library.) London, 1847. P. Du Chaillu. — The Viking Age. 2 vols.
London, 1889.
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