The Edda, Volume 1: The Divine Mythology of the North; Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12

Faraday, Lucy Winifred · 1948

Some explanation is needed of the form of spelling I have adopted in transcribing Norse proper names. The spirants thorn and eth are represented by _th_ and _d_, as being more familiar to readers unacquainted with the original. Marks of vowel-length are in all cases omitted. The inflexional _-r_ of the nominative singular masculine is also omitted, whether it appears as _-r_ or is assimilated to a preceding consonant (as in Odinn, Eysteinn, Heindall, Egill) in the Norse form, with the single exception of the name Tyr, where I use the form which has become conventional in English. The Icelandic Eddas are the only vernacular record of Germanic heathendom as it developed during the four centu…

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