The Elder Edda (Bray Translation) by Sæmund SIGFUSSON read by Expatriate | Full Audio Book

The Elder Edda (Bray Translation) by Sæmund SIGFUSSON (1056 - 1133), translated by Olive BRAY (? - ?)
Genre(s): Children's Non-fiction, Sagas, Other religions

Read by: Expatriate in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Introduction, Pt. 01 (General)
00:29:07 - 02 - Introduction, Pt. 02 (The Sayings of Grimnir)
00:50:07 - 03 - Introduction, Pt. 03 (The Wisdom of All-Wise)
00:58:26 - 04 - Introduction, Pt. 04 (The Words of the Mighty Weaver)
01:10:37 - 05 - Introduction, Pt. 05 (The Words of Odin, the High One)
01:30:16 - 06 - Introduction, Pt. 06 (The Lay of Hymir)
01:42:43 - 07 - Introduction, Pt. 07 (The Lay of Thrym)
01:49:51 - 08 - Introduction, Pt. 08 (The Story of Skirnir)
01:55:49 - 09 - Introduction, Pt. 09 (Day-Spring and Menglöd)
02:06:53 - 10 - Introduction, Pt. 10 (Greybeard & Thor)
02:21:44 - 11 - Introduction, Pt. 11 (The Song of Rig)
02:29:32 - 12 - Introduction, Pt. 12 (The Lay of Hyndla)
02:48:22 - 13 - Introduction, Pt. 13 (Baldr's Dreams)
03:08:25 - 14 - Introduction, Pt. 14 (Loki's Mocking)
03:25:02 - 15 - Introduction, Pt. 15 (The Soothsaying of the Vala)
03:46:31 - 16 - I. The Sayings of Grimnir
04:00:13 - 17 - II. The Wisdom of All-Wise
04:07:58 - 18 - III. The Words of the Mighty Weaver
04:19:22 - 19 - IV. The Words of Odin, the High One
04:54:34 - 20 - V. The Lay of Hymir
05:02:41 - 21 - VI. The Lay of Thrym
05:09:19 - 22 - VII. The Story of Skirnir
05:18:45 - 23 - VIII. Day-Spring and Menglöd
05:32:12 - 24 - IX. Greybeard & Thor
05:41:58 - 25 - X. The Song of Rig
05:51:29 - 26 - XI. The Vala's Shorter Soothsaying
05:54:29 - 27 - XII. The Lay of Hyndla
06:02:20 - 28 - XIII. Baldr's Dreams
06:05:43 - 29 - XIV. Loki's Mocking
06:20:57 - 30 - XV. Fragments From Snorri's Edda
06:25:44 - 31 - XVI. The Soothsaying of the Vala

The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems dating from the thirteenth century CE. Though no two translators or editors seem to agree on precisely which poems should be included in this collection, the Elder Edda is the most important source for Norse mythology and legends of northern European heroes. The later 'Younger' or Prose Edda, gathered or transcribed by Snorri Sturluson in about 1220 CE, is the other such source, largely drawing on and even directly quoting from the poetic material of the Elder Edda. Even the uninitiated reader of the Eddas may find them familiar in sound, rhythm, and content because of their considerable influence on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and his Middle Earth fantasies. Though the Bray edition is entitled 'The Elder or Poetic Edda, commonly known as Sæmund's Edda,' even at the time of its 1908 publication no scholar still believed that the twelfth-century Icelandic scholar Sæmundur Sigfússon had anything to do with the Poetic Edda; whoever actually compiled and transcribed these old oral myths is unknown to modern scholarship. This recording is of Part I (Mythological Poems), including elegant introductory material by translator and scholar Olive Bray. It does not include the Icelandic of the facing pages in this parallel bilingual edition. ( Expatriate)

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I would enjoy this if the pronunciations weren't such a PAIN. Words I hardly even recognized:
Bonde
Odling
Yngling
Skyldner
...
Please, if you make a new recording of this, please pronounce more accurately. Ask a Nordic language speaker or listen to the words pronounced in online dictionaries. Even Snorre is pronounced really bad. The ending is like the e in ending, not the i in ending. Snorreh. Complements on pronounciation of Frøya, which at least was recognized by a Norwegian's ear :)