Source

The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson

The Prose Edda was compiled by Snorri Sturluson, a thirteenth century Icelandic chieftain and scholar, as a handbook of Norse mythology and poetic technique, and this is Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur's English translation, published through the American-Scandinavian Foundation. As a primary source it is one of the two central textual foundations of what is known about Norse mythology, though written centuries after the conversion to Christianity by an author working to preserve and explain older pagan tradition for a Christian audience. Its limit is the translation's age, dating from 1916, so later Old Norse scholarship has refined some readings since, and Snorri's own Christian era framing of the older pagan material is itself a documented interpretive filter scholars account for.

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Assessment

Reliability Tier

Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur's 1916 translation of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, still in wide use as an accessible English rendering of the primary text but superseded on many points by more recent, more heavily annotated critical editions.

Notes

Public domain in the United States by 1916 publication. NOT public domain in the United Kingdom or EU: Brodeur died in 1971, so life-plus-seventy runs to 2042.

Citation

Author

Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur

Publisher

American-Scandinavian Foundation / Internet Sacred Text Archive

Publication Year

1916

URL

https://sacred-texts.com/neu/pre/

Source Type

primary-text

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Associated With

Norse

This source names Norse directly: "and scholar, as a handbook of Norse mythology and poetic technique, and this is Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur's English translation, published through the American-Scandinavian Foundation."

Source The Prose Edda of Snorri SturlusonArthur Gilchrist Brodeur

Claims Backed By This Source (64 claims)

This source backs 64 claims across the atlas. As facts: 42 well-attested. As cited relationships: 12 holds, 1 connected. Plus 9 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

Mythical Creatures, 19 claims: 10 well-attested, 7 holds, 2 general references.
Passages, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
Articles, 9 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 connected, 3 general references.
Sacred Objects & Ritual Items, 9 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
Other Writings, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
Realms, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.