Poetic Edda Decoded

You've heard of Odin. You've seen Thor. This is where they actually come from.The Poetic Edda is the oldest surviving record of Norse mythology. Forty-five poems preserved in a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript, containing material centuries older than the manuscript itself. Creation and apocalypse. Gods who know they will lose and fight anyway. Heroes who walk into destruction with their ey...