1st Edition
Old Norse Mythology An Introduction to the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda
By Mathias Nordvig
Copyright 2026
166 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
166 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
166 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential Eddic poems and Snorri Sturluson’s Edda , with a text-by-text approach explaining the content of each, how they represent Old Norse mythology, and the relations between texts.
Old Norse mythology was written in medieval Iceland and Scandinavia a couple of centuries after... Read more
Introduction
Source criticism and theory
Pre-Christian religions in Northern Europe
Old Norse mythology in medieval literature
The myths in poetry
Völuspá
Hávamál
Vafþrúðnismál
Grímnismál
Skírnismál
Lokasenna
Hymiskviða
Þrymskviða
Harbarðslióð
Alvíssmál
Völundarkviða
Heroic poems
Miscellaneous poems
The myths in prose
Snorri’s Edda
Prologue
Gylfaginning
Skáldskaparmál
Gesta Danorum
Heimskringla
Ynglinga saga
Saga excerpts
Short stories
Sörla þáttr
Ögmundar þáttr
Miscellaneous tales
Contemporary uses of Old Norse mythology
Biography
Mathias Nordvig is Associate Teaching Professor of Nordic Studies at the University of Colorado‑Boulder, where he has taught subjects on Old Norse mythology and the Viking Age since 2015. His books include Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology and Ancestral North.
