Edda means poetic art, and Sturluson's guidebook for Icelandic poets has been a timeless inspiration for generations of writers around the world, including Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien. The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Iceland's great literary genius, Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), combined oral traditions, genealogical records, and old songs to immortalize his country's glorious past. The wellspring of modern knowledge of Norse mythology, these sagas preserved the Vikings' narrative style from an invading European influence. They also depict the comic and disastrous results of ambition, passion, and destiny. Resounding with a poetic instinct for the picturesque, the dramatic, and the human, they form vivid portraits of the characters' personalities. Spanning the dawn of the world's creation to its fiery destruction, these gripping Norse legends chronicle the triumphs and tragedies of a lost era. Gods and giants bestride these ancient tales, in which warrior queens and noble heroes battle with elves, dwarves, and fearsome monsters. A Source for Norse Mythology Snorri’s Prose Edda remains the most approachable written source for Norse myth because it is pretty coherent and organized roughly chronologically, with Snorri starting his narrative at the world’s beginning, and ending with its fiery destruction at Ragnarok.
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