Ursula Dronke is Emeritus Vigfusson Reader in Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities, University of Oxford and and Emeritus Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford. Her publications include The Poetic Edda: Volume I: Heroic Poems and Volume II: Mythological Poems (both Clarendon Press), and The role of sexual themes in Njáls saga: The Dorothea Coke memorial lecture in northern studies (Viking Society for Northern Research).

The strength of Dronke's edition undoubtedly lies in its literary interpretation of the text and it's English translation

• PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; HAVAMAL; HYMISKVIDA; GRIMNISMAL; GROTTASONGR; THE MANUSCRIPTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ursula Dronke is Emeritus Vigfusson Reader in Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities, University of Oxford and and Emeritus Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford. Her publications include The Poetic Edda: Volume I: Heroic Poems and Volume II: Mythological Poems (both Clarendon Press), and The role of sexual themes in Njáls saga: The Dorothea Coke memorial lecture in northern studies (Viking Society for Northern Research).

The strength of Dronke's edition undoubtedly lies in its literary interpretation of the text and it's English translation

• PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; HAVAMAL; HYMISKVIDA; GRIMNISMAL; GROTTASONGR; THE MANUSCRIPTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY