High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (September 18, 1888 – September 9, 1971) was a scholar of early English, German, and Old Norse literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known primarily for his scholarly work on Beowulf and his translation of Snorri Sturluson`s Prose Edda for The American-Scandinavian Foundation, but also as a writer of pulp fiction and for his left-wing politics.