Ebook: Old Norse Poems: The Most Important Non-Skaldic Verse Not Included in the Poetic Edda

The group of poems here offered comprises practically all the more considerable (non-Skaldic) verse material not in the Edda. It shows, even better than that remarkable collection, of which it is intended to be the supplement, the wealth of independent poetic inventions and forms that flourished in the Scandinavian North before and immediately after, the introduction of Christianity, especially when we bear in mind that much is irretrievably lost.