Commonplace Folklore: Day XXII

Snorri Sturluson and Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur

“And Hárr answered : “When the sons of Borr were walking along the sea-strand, they found two trees, and took up the trees and shaped men of them : the first gave them spirit and life ; the second, wit and feeling ; the third, form, speech, hearing, and sight. They gave them clothing and names : the male was called Askr, and female Embla, and of them was mankind begotten, which received a dwelling-place under Midgard.”

The Prose Edda, tales from Norse Mythology, by Snorri Sturluson, translated from the Icelandic with an introduction by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, published in 2006 as an unabridged republication of the work originally published as The Prose Edda by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, in 1916.