Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Editors' Foreword xi
6. The Edda as Ritual: Odin and His Masks 3
7. Insults and Riddles in the Edda Poems 25
8. Elements of Imagery in the Edda 47
9. Some Thoughts on Völuspá 86
10. On the Composition of Vǫlospá 117
11. Types of Eddie Mythological Poetry 134
12. The River Names in Grímnismá 27-29 165
13. The Revenge of Vǫlundr 187
14. Eddie Poetry as Oral Poetry: The Evidence of Parallel Passages in the Helgi Poems for Questions of Composition and Performance 210
15. Did the Poet of Atlamál Know Atlaqviða? 243
16. Guðrúnarqviða forna. A Reconstruction and Interpretation 258
17. Pagan Sympathy: Attitudes to Heathendom in the Prologue to Snorra Edda 283
18. Notes on Contributors 215
19. Index 317