Edda - Everyman's Library Author:Snorri Sturluson, Anthony Faulkes (Translator) Over twenty years Snorri Sturlson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose Edda as a textbook for young poets who wished to praise kings. He surveys the content, style and metres of Viking poetry, and provides the most complete catalog in existence of the mythology of pagan Scandinavia. This first complete and literal translation into Eng... more »lish preserves his laconic and allusive style.« less