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Excerpt from The Younger Edda: Also Called Snorre's Edda, or the Prose Edda <p>The records of our Teutonic past have hitherto received but slight attention from the English speaking branch of the great world-ash Ygdrasil. This indifference is the more deplorable, since a knowledge Of our heroic forefathers would nat urally operate as a most powerful means of keep ing alive among us, and our posterity, that spirit of courage, enterprise and independence for which the old Teutons were so distinguished. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.