The Codex Regius is dated to around 1270 but was only discovered in 1643, when it came into the possession of an Icelandic bishop named Brynjlfur Sveinsson. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. The Poetic Edda is a collection of mythological poems by unknown authors that mainly come from a manuscript known as the Codex Regius, which is Latin for the King’s Book. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This robust new translation captures the magisterial sweep and startling psychological complexity of the Old Icelandic original.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
Its time scale spans the eons from the world’s creation to its violent end. Its gods live with the tragic knowledge of their own impending destruction in the cataclysmic battle of Ragnarok. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman heroes and indomitable warrior queens.
Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods.
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