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Olive Bray (1878 - 1909) was the editor and translator of The Elder or Poetic Edda, Commonly Known As Sæmund's Edda: The Mythological Poems that was illustrated by W. G. Collingwood and published in 1908.

Olive was born in Tooting Surrey in 1878 and and came from a distinguished family. Her father, Sir Reginald More Bray (26 September 1842 – 22 March 1923), was an English High Court judge and her mother was the author Emily Octavia Barclay(1847 - 1915). Olive joined the Viking Society for Northern Research in 1902 and was a Vice-President in 1909. Olive died in 1909 at the age of thirty-one.

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