I4i . the EdJa analysed. July 31, 



EDDARESENII. Hafni;e, 1665. 410. 



Compared with Mallet and Goranson, their Editions. 



The Editor has been .'avoured with the tbllowing brief analysis of the 

 Edda, — a collection o the mest ancient northern historical tracts that 

 have been brought down to our times, by an ingenious correspondent, 

 whose writings have thrown great light on many departments in 

 the republic of letters. These are the earliest attempts at histori- 

 cal records, and afford only obscure hints of certain transactions now 

 so totally forgotten as to put it out of our power to separate the 

 truth from fiction. But Denmark is rich in historical records of a 

 later date, and lefs doubtful authority, which the prince of that 

 country, with a judgement and munificence that give him a distin- 

 guiflied pre-eminence among the princes of Europe, has been gradu- 

 ally publifliing to the world for many years past, in such a manner 

 as to render them accefsible to all neighbouring nations, on whosfe 

 ancient history these volumes will tend to throw considerable light. 

 Among these the writings of Snorro hold a-conspicuous rank, from 

 whose history some extracts were lately given which have been 

 fumlflied to the Editor by a correspondent to whom the readers 

 of the Bee are indebted for many other valuable communications. 



JL HIS book contains, ^rst, A Dedication to Frederic iii. 

 of no lefs than fifty-eight pages, and which presents a 

 complete catalogue of all the books publiftied on ethics or 

 moral philosophy, either by ancients or moderns. This 

 dedication Mallet calls the firejace, by an odd mistake. 

 Resenius tells us in tiie end that he was profefsor of 

 ethics, and so, as seems, thought himself obliged to give 

 the king a catalogue of bocks on them I Never was pedan- 

 tic folly carried so far I 



zd. The pretace of fifty-two pages, containing a tole- 

 rable account of the Eddas, elder and latter j of Snorro, 



