Ijg^, the EJda analysed. 143 



3^/, The Edda and Skalda, printed as one work. The 

 former contains about 220, the latter about forty pages. 

 Every chapter first appears in Icelandic, but printed in 

 Danilh charactcis j then a Danilh translation, then a La- 

 tin. The DaniQi is by Stephanius, the Latin by Mag- 

 nus Olai. Various readings are annotated from the manu- 

 script and Latin translation ot Stephanius. The version 

 of Magnus has not the dialogue, nor the Icelandic here 

 publifhed, so that cutting off the two first chapters, the 

 work would run in plain narration. The absurdity of 

 Har and Jafuhar (Odin himself, as appears from the Skal- 

 da,) giving an account of Odin, infers that the dialogue 

 is an interpolation. 



The book has neither pages nor folios marked through- 

 out. 



The Edda has LXXVIII mythologies or fables ; Mai- 

 let has 33, Goranson 26. But the division is arbitrary j 

 Mallet and Goranson containing the same matter. Of 

 the LXXVIII fables both omit from fable L to fable 

 LXXVIII inclusive, that is twenty-eight fables. 



This Edda differs widely from Goranson's in its Intro- 

 ductory part, which consists of three chapters, \. ^id szt 

 Edda; II. De partib'us Edda-. 1 hese two little chapters 

 and an epilogue at the end, are not found in ancient 

 manuscripts ; and Resenius thinks they were written by 

 Magnus Olai, the Latin translator. 



But the grand difference consists In chapter III. of this 

 introductory part, wliich is very long, and is not found in 

 Goranson's edition. It contains, ist, An account of the 

 creation. 2d, The flood, and how eight men and women 

 (humi/ies,) were saved. 3d, OI Zoroaster, architect of the 

 tower of Babel, and the origin of idolatry, 4th, Of Troy 

 or Asgard, anrf Odin or Priam. 5th, Of Saturn and Ju- 



