Senior Edda

For most of our contemporaries, the names of Odin, Loki, Torah and other Scandinavian gods are known mainly from films and comics than on their literary basis - the epic Elder Edda. The bright, fantastic world where Valkyrie live, dragons guard the treasures, and the gods of Asgard intervene in the fate of people. Senior Edda is one of the most important monuments of Western European literature, a unique collection of mythological and heroic songs. She tells about the Viking era when the Scandinavian peoples and states developed, legends and myths appeared.
In the present edition of Elder Edda is published in the complete classic translation of A. I. Korsun, with the notes of M. I. Stlobin-Kamensky