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xxii full responsibility for the faults of the  these may be, I trust that the book may perform some service in bringing before the  a greater portion of Snorri's classic treatise  previously been accessible. The reader will value of the Edda if he will compare it, for  antiquarian interest, with the Mabinogion, and  that the Edda is a masterpiece of style,  no translator can ever reproduce.

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