Dan knátti fregna:
> One more question: Are there any English translations that have been done by
> native Icelandic speakers? If not, why not?
Not (to my knowledge) of the entire corpus - but surely of individual poems.
Here's a thorough and accurate treatment of Hymiskviða by an Icelandic classicist:
http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/hymir/hymis.html
I understand Sigurður Nordal's book on Völuspá is available in English.
I haven't seen the translation but the original has a lot to recommend it.
Kveðja,
Haukur