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attestation: Prior to this translation, only Thorpe's and Vigfusson and Powell's Corpus Poeticum Boreale offered complete English renderings of the Poetic Edda

"In English the only versions were long the conspicuously inadequate one made by Thorpe, and published about half a century ago, and the unsatisfactory prose translations in Vigfusson and Powell's Corpus Poeticum Boreale, reprinted in the Norrœna collection."
attestation: The Poetic Edda is the primary repository of Germanic mythology

"the Poetic Edda is the original storehouse of Germanic mythology."

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"A brief review of the chief facts in the history of the Poetic Edda will explain why this uncertainty has persisted."
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"We can say only that thirty-four poems have been preserved, twenty-nine of them in a single manuscript collection, which differ considerably in subject-matter and style from all the rest of extant Old Norse poetry, and these we group together as the Poetic Edda."
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"It is, however, an open question whether or not Sæmund had anything to do with making the collection, or any part of it, now known as the Poetic Edda, for of course the seventeenth-century assignment of the work to him is negligible."

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"Most of the poems of the Poetic Edda have unquestionably reached us in rather bad shape."

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"But far above either of these I place the hope that this English version may give to some, who have known little of the ancient traditions of what is after all their own race, a clearer insight into the glories of that extraordinary past, and that I may through this medium be able to bring to others a small part of the delight which I myself have found in the poems of the Poetic Edda."

attestation: The Poetic Edda pronouncing index provides approximate Old Norse pronunciations using a minimal set of phonetic symbols

"The pronunciations indicated in the following index are in many cases, at best, mere approximations, and in some cases the pronunciation of the Old Norse is itself more or less conjectural."