The British Edda Reconstructed & Literally Translated

"...........the Edda is not at all a
medley of disjointed Scandinavian mythological tales
of gods as has been imagined; but that it forms one
great coherent epic of historical human heroes and their
exploits, based upon genuine hoary tradition; that it
is an ancient British epic poem written with lucid
realism in the ancient British language; and that it
is one of the great literary epics of the world, and deals
circumstantially with the greatest of all heroic epochs
in the ancient world, namely, the struggle for the establishment
of Civilization, with its blessings to humanity,
over five thousand years ago...."