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The 'Prose Edda', known also as the 'Younger Edda' or 'Snorri's Edda' () is an Icelandic manual of poetics which contains many stories from Norse mythology. Its purpose was to enable Icelandic poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, and to grasp the meaning behind the many ''kennings'' that were used in skaldic poetry.
The work was written by the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around 1220. Seven manuscripts, dating from around 1300 to around 1600, have independent textual value.
The Prose Edda opens with a Prologue and consists of three distinct books: the 'Gylfaginning'' (c 20,000 words), the ''Skáldskaparmál'' (c 50,000 words) and the ''Háttatal'' (c 20,000 words).
See also: Edda, Poetic Edda.

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★ Edda by Snorri Sturluson, Anthony Faulkes (Translator), Everymans Library, ISBN 0-460-87616-3.

External links

★ The Prose Edda, translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, at sacred-texts.com

★ Critical editions of all major redactions of the Prose Edda in pdf format at septentrionalia.org

★ Edda Snorra Sturlusonar Old Norse text, Guðni Jónsson's edition.

★ , Rasmus B. Anderson's translation (1897)

★ , translated by Benjamin Thorpe (Elder Eddas) and I. A. Blackwell (Younger Eddas). (1906)

★ Prose Edda Arthur G. Brodeur's translation (1916)