The Poetic Edda

"This is a wonderful new edition of the

Poetic Edda . It captures the language, vitality, and rhythms of the original.""—Jesse Byock, PhD, UCLAGods, giants, the undead, dwarves, Valkyries, heroes, kidnapping, dragons, and a giant wolf are just some of the stars in these Norse tales. Committed to vellum in Iceland around 1270,

The Poetic Edda

has compelled the likes of Richard Wagner, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jorges Luis Borges, and W.H. Auden. Jeramy Dodds transmits the Old Icelandic text into English without chipping the patina of the original. Jeramy Dodds 's

Crabwise to the Hounds

was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won the Trillium Book Award for poetry.