Edda

Snorri Sturluson was a thirteenth century Icelandic chieftain and Christian author, and this Everyman edition is Anthony Faulkes's standard critical scholarly translation of Snorri's Prose Edda, the primary medieval text systematizing Norse mythology into a coherent account. As Snorri's text in careful scholarly translation it is the correct source for Norse mythological figures and cosmology as this text presents them. Its limit is one Faulkes's own introduction addresses directly, Snorri was a Christian author writing more than two centuries after the formal Christianization of Iceland, systematizing older pagan material through his own historical distance from it, so a claim about actual pre-Christian Norse belief and practice, as against Snorri's later literary systematization of it, should be checked against that gap.