Excerpt from The Prose or Younger Edda Commonly Ascribed to Snorri Sturluson: Translated From the Old Norse He has also taken the liberty of printing separately and under a different title, the chap ter which in the original stands as the first in Gylfi's Mocking, because however interesting it has clearly nothing in common with what follows and is doubtless the interpolation of some early copyist, who thought himself bound to Write down at the same time all he knew about Gylfi, and could find no better place for this myth than to'set it first: it is remarkable that in the Upsala ms., said by some to bathe oldest extant, this chapter is omitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.