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1923

Henry Adams Bellows

The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes

Project Gutenberg provides the public-domain Bellows edition in free ebook and text formats.

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1866

Benjamin Thorpe

The Edda of Sæmund the Learned

Project Gutenberg provides Thorpe’s public-domain Edda, including the Hávamál, in free ebook and text formats.

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1908

Olive Bray

The Elder or Poetic Edda

Internet Archive hosts a scan of Bray’s 1908 public-domain edition. Download formats, including scan-derived PDF options, are provided by Internet Archive.

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1928

Lee M. Hollander

The Poetic Edda

The archive records the original 1928 Hollander edition as public domain in the United States. Use the edition page below for source and rights details.

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2023

Edward Pettit

The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition

Open Book Publishers provides Pettit’s modern dual-language edition under CC BY-NC 4.0. It is free to read and reuse noncommercially with attribution.

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