SigPhi · Snorri Sturluson

The Prose Edda (Younger Edda)

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Y Z Errors and anomalies noted by transcriber: A few paragraph-ending periods (full stops) have been supplied.

The author omitted vowel modifiers and diacritics from all names in the body text: Hakon, Malar, Mjolnir. The footnotes are generally more linguistically precise.

The name “Svanhild/Swanhild” is spelled “Swanhild” in the body text, “Svanhild” in the Vocabulary (all occurrences) and Index. The spelling “skees” is used consistently.

Ambiguous stanzas in verse: The king saw...’Round his house...Struck to the ground...With blows and wounds. _page break after “his house”; no stanza break in printed text until after “blows and wounds”_ Typographical errors (all from “Notes”, Vocabulary and Index): a great sea goes into / Njorvasound Footnote 102: Njorvasound..._spelling as in original: should probably be “Njorvasund”_ Chapter VI of Ynglinga / Saga _text reads “Ynglingla”_ the much-traveled man, the / ἀνὴρ πολύτροπος _text reads “πολύθροπος”_ the valkyrie says / at berserkja reiðu vil ek þik spyrja _text reads “pik spyrja”_ identical in root with Lat. _divus_; / Sansk. _dwas_ _so in original; the Sanskrit is usually given as “dyaus”_ Zalmoxis, derived from the Gr. Ζαλμός, helmet _so in original. Ζαλμός is defined by Liddell and Scott-- a dictionary available to the author-- as Thracian for “a skin.”_ Compare the Greek word νεφέλη = mist. _text reads “νεφέλγ”_ and then cooly says to him _spelling as in original_ Through this he / slipt. _variant spelling in original_ He impersonated all that was good and holy _text reads “al”_ This chapter of _Skaldskaparmal_ _text reads “Skaldkaparmal”_ Echoes from Mistland; Echoes from Mist-Land _inconsistent forms in original_ JARNVIDJES. The giantesses dwelling in Ironwood. _text reads “JARNVIDJIS”_ JORMUNGAND. The Midgard-serpent. _text reads “JORMUNDGAND”_...from the mouth {of the} chained Fenris-wolf...out of whose body the world was cr{eated.} _page image incomplete; words and letters in braces supplied from context_