Havamal, edited with introduction and commentary

Havamal, edited with introduction and commentary by David A. H. Evans, Viking Society for Northern Research, 1986, is a scholarly critical edition of the Old Norse wisdom poem, prepared by a specialist Old Norse philologist for the field's own dedicated learned society. Its strength is that a critical edition of this kind carries a full textual and interpretive apparatus that a plain translation does not. Its limit is that it is a scholarly edition aimed at specialists; a general reader wanting an accessible modern English rendering may prefer a popular translation alongside it for readability, checking specific claims against this edition's own notes.