The Prose Edda

Synopsis

The most renowned of all works of scandinavian literature and our most extensive source of norse mythologywritten in iceland a century after the close of the viking age, the prose edda tells ancient stories of the norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves and elves struggle for survival. In prose interspersed with powerful verse, the edda shows the gods' tragic realization that the future holds one final cataclysmic battle, ragnarok, when the world will be destroyed.