Original illustrations? Sleeve art by JAW Cooper. Map of Nine Worlds on p.13 and ravens on pages 25, 125, and 245 by Gabe Foreman.
3 Ymir struck camp when time began.
on the cavern of chaos's gaping gulf.
he dogged him, and was more cunning.
to learn more runes and call himself Rig.
While Jeramy Dodds is an academic, he's best known as a poet. This fact makes his approach to translation differ from many of his fellow translators, the vast majority of whom are strictly academics who produce no evident creative output. However, while Dodds breaks away from his predecessors in style, Dodds's translation also entirely lacks footnotes or endnotes, making the complex and alien format of the Poetic Edda nearly impossible for beginners to parse without heavily reliance on secondary sources. Jackson Crawford's translation continued this unfortunate trend the following year.