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This volume focuses on the processes of rewriting and reception of the Prose Edda in Iceland during the 17th and 18th centuries. To this end, four particularly outstanding Icelandic paper manuscripts are analysed in depth for the first time. The scope of the study extends beyond the text of the Prose Edda to include distinctive features of the manuscripts – prologues, illuminations, title pages and calligraphy. It becomes clear that rewriting and reception are intertwined: just as in the medieval manuscripts, the Prose Edda is altered and adapted in every early modern copy to suit its respective target audience. The study demonstrates that the manuscripts were by no means read only by the educated, but across all social classes. At the same time, in these manuscripts the Prose Edda is presented as the ‘Snorri’s Edda’ – drawing, amongst other things, on traditions of book printing – and positioned as part of Iceland’s literary heritage in the context of the struggle for national independence. In this way, it was already integrated into the Icelandic literary canon at that time, where it remains to this day.
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DOI: 10.24053/9783381130924Editions