Medium Aevum, March 22nd, 1999
The Poetic Edda, II: Mythological Poems, ed., trans., introd., and commentary by Ursula Dronke (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). 464 pp. ISBN 0-19-811181-9. 70.00 [pounds sterling].
The long-awaited second volume of Ursula Dronke's edition of eddic poems has now appeared. It adds six to the poems of volume I, which contained the last four poems of the Codex Regius and was published in 1969. There are still at least twenty-two to go, so that it remains doubtful whether this edition will take less time to appear than the Arnamagnaean edition (1787-1828).
The edition does not follow either the...
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