The British Edda
Subtitle: the great epic poem of the ancient Britons on the exploits of King Thor, Arthur or Adam and his knights in establishing civilization, reforming Eden & capturing the Holy Grail about 3380-3350 B.C.
By: Reconstructed for first time from the medieval mss. by Babylonian, Hittite, Egyptian, Trojan & Gothic keys, and done literally into English by L. A. Waddell, with 30 plates & 162 text illustrations of scenes from Sumerian, British & other ancient monuments, maps, foreward, introduction, notes & glossary
Publisher: Chapman & Hall, ltd.
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Eddas; Mythology, Indo-European; Sumerians; Britons
Work titles: Edda Sæmundar
Notes: "The Edda, as now reconstructed in sequence from its hitherto disjointed lays, is disclosed to be all unsuspectedly the great national epic of the ancient Britons of the pre-Christian period."--Foreword.