Selected 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.
Footnotes
1 Based upon the Latin discourse De correctione rusticorum, by Martin of Bracara, who died in 580.
2 This discrepancy between the Roman and Scandinavian myths is also noticed by Saxo Grammaticus.
3 Compare the vow of Hallfred and his companions mentioned on p. 19.
4 In the ceremony of entering into ‘foster-brotherhood,’ each person swore to avenge the other, ‘and named all the gods as witnesses.’