
	Where results make sense

Topic: Edda

Related Topics

Younger Edda

Nidavellir

Svartalfheim

Elder Edda

Muspel

Ratatosk

Jormungand

Lokasenna

Skald

Jotun

Norse mythology

Fakahotu

Surtur

Bear Son Tale

Old Norse orthography

In the News (Thu 10 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Poetic Edda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius.
		The heroic lays are to be seen as a whole in the Edda, but they consist of three layers, the story of Helgi Hundingsbani, the story of the Nibelungs and the story of Jörmunrekkr, king of the Goths.
		bibliothek i København (Codex regius af den ældre Edda) i fototypisk og diplomatisk gengievelse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poetic_Edda (1982 words)

	EDDA - LoveToKnow Article on EDDA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Prose Edda, properly known as Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, was arranged and modified by Snorni, but actually composed, as has been conjectured, between the years 1140 and 1 io.
		The fifth section of the Edda, the Hdttatal, or Number of Metres, is a running technical commentary on the text of Snornis three poems written in honor of Haakon, king of Norway.
		The poetic Edda was translated into English verse by Amos Cottle in 1797; the poet Gray produced a version of the Vegtamskvi~a; but the first good translation of the whole was that published by Benjamin Thorpe in 1866.
	97.1911encyclopedia.org /E/ED/EDDA.htm (3333 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Edda
		"The Younger Edda", the work of the Icelandic historian and statesman Snorri Sturluson (1178-1241), is a treatise on poetics for the guidance of the skalds or Icelandic poets.
		The title "Edda" is given to this work in the most important manuscript which we possess of it, the "Upsala Codex", dating from about 1300.
		Unfortunately this cycle of poems is incomplete, owing to a great gap of about eight leaves in the "Codex Regius"; but an idea of the contents of the lost poems may be gained from the prose version of the "Volsungasaga", the author of which still had before him the complete collection.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05280a.htm (1022 words)

	Edda -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Prose Edda was written by the Icelandic chieftain, poet, and historian Snorri Sturluson, probably in 1222–23.
		It is a textbook on poetics intended to instruct young poets in the difficult metres of the early Icelandic skalds (court poets) and to provide for a Christian age an understanding of the mythological subjects treated or alluded to in early poetry.
		The ‘Prose (or Younger) Edda' describes Gimle as the hall that was “fairest of all and brighter than the sun,” situated at the southernmost point of Asgard.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031961 (642 words)

	Edda - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Poetic Edda, also known as Sæmundar Edda or the Elder Edda, is a collection of Old Norse poems from the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius.
		Along with Snorri's Edda the Poetic Edda is the most important source we have on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends.
		The Prose Edda consists of three distinct sections: the Gylfaginning (c 20 000 words), the Skáldskaparmál (c 50 000 words) and the Háttatal (c 20 000 words).
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Edda (524 words)

	Edda
		The oldest is the Elder, or Poetic, Edda.
		The Poetic Edda is followed by the Younger, or Prose, Edda.
		The Voluspa, the song of the prophets, is the part of the Edda in which is narrated the events of Ragnarok.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/e/edda.html (159 words)

	Edda. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Poetic Edda, or Elder Edda, is a collection (late 13th cent.) of 34 mythological and heroic lays, most of which were composed c.800–c.1200, probably in Iceland or W Norway.
		Despite uncritical arrangement and textual corruption, the Poetic Edda is the most valuable collection of texts in Old Norse literature.
		The Prose Edda, or Younger Edda, was probably written c.1222 by Snorri Sturluson as a guide to the scaldic poetry of Iceland.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ed/Edda.html (246 words)

	Old Norse literature on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Eddic writings (see Edda) were condensations of ancient lays, in alliterative verse (see alliteration), on old gods and heroes.
		Intricate metrical schemes are meticulously observed, and diction is polished to the point of preciousness, especially in the incessant use of the kenning (a metaphoric substituted phrase, e.g., "ship-road" for "sea"), found also in Anglo-Saxon literature.
		As the scalds became a group apart, and only the initiated could understand their highly allusive verse, Snorri Sturluson was prompted to write the Prose Edda (c.1222) as a text of scaldic poetry, in a vain attempt to promote and preserve the old techniques.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/OldN1orse.asp (833 words)

	The Masks of Odin by Elsa-Brita Titichenell (Edda, ancient norse
		A good many people hearing of the Edda or of the Norse myths think mainly of Balder, the sun-god, who was slain by a twig of mistletoe; or they may conjure up mighty Thor, hurler of thunderbolts and lightning, whose footsteps make the earth quake.
		As a serious student of both Edda and Theosophy her loom is cosmic in reach, its warp representing the theosophia perennis or enduring god-wisdom and its woof the Edda, whose many-colored threads she weaves into colorful and often inspiring patterns of interpretation.
		Her aim is not to hammer out just another version of the Edda when already several in English are available both in prose and verse, but rather "to penetrate to the core of inspired meaning" hidden within the world's mythic lore.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/odin/odin-hp.htm (2597 words)

	Poetic Edda
		..."Poetic Edda", which is now preserved in Iceland, was written down toward the end of the 13th century, probably in the years around 1280.
		It is presumed to have been intended as a handbook for novice poets who wished to become skalds, creators of the sophisticated poetry recited in court.
		The Prose Edda contains a preface on the creation of the world; mythological stories; sayings attributed to the Norse god of poetry, Bragi; rules governing poetic style; and an analysis of ancient poets.
	www.sunnyway.com /runes/poetic_edda.html (1250 words)

	Edda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is also sometimes referred to as Saemund's Edda after a famous Icelander.
		The Poetic Edda can be divided into two sections, a mythical one and a heroic one.
		Some of the stories from The Poetic Edda in Old Norse and Swedish from Project Runeberg.
	www.ugcs.caltech.edu /~cherryne/myth.cgi/Edda.html (764 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Edda. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		One is in verse, composed in Iceland in the eleventh century by Sæmund Sigfusson, the Sage; and the other in prose, compiled a century later by Snorri Sturleson, who wrote a commentary on the first edda.
		The poetical edda contains an account of creation, the history of Odin, Thor, Freyr, Balder, etc., etc. The prose one contains the exploits of such conquerors as Vœlsung, Sigurd, Attle, etc., and is divided into several parts.
		The poetical compilation is generally called Sœmund’s Edda, and the prose one Snorri’s Edda.
	www.bartleby.com /81/5629.html (169 words)

	The Eddas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Poetic Edda is the older of the two Eddas and therefore sometimes called the Elder Edda.
		Birger Nerman, in The Poetic Edda in the Light of Archaeology, puts forward the opinion that the majority of the stories must have been written before the Viking age.
		There are many theories concerning the meaning of the word edda.
	www.ugcs.caltech.edu /~cherryne/edda.html (670 words)

	Edda on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		EDDA [Edda], title applied to two distinct works in Old Icelandic.
		The Poetic Edda, or Elder Edda, is a collection (late 13th cent.) of 34 mythological and heroic lays, most of which were composed c.800-c.1200, probably in Iceland or W Norway.
		Edda Martinez of Edda's Cake Designs is photographed on Friday, May 2, 2003, decorating a wedding cake that will be over five feet tall when completed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/e/edda.asp (527 words)

	Poetic Edda Index
		The "Elder Edda", "Poetic Edda" or "Saemundar Edda" was a collection of old norse poems.
		The name "Saemundr Edda" is wrong, 'couse now we know that Saemundr wasn't the autor, maybe it hadn't one single autor.
		The name Elder Edda isn't that wrong, 'couse the basis of the poems is older than that of the Prose Edda.
	www.cybersamurai.net /Mythology/nordic_gods/LegendsSagas/Edda/PoeticEdda (260 words)

	Prose Edda
		Snorri again uses the vehicle of a visitor to the Aesir, who is told stories.
		This section is the primary purpose of the Prose Edda, a discussion of the language and imagery of poetry, and how its metaphors can be understood in terms of Norse mythology.
		The 102 stanzas are accompanied by a commentary in prose on the variations of meter and style exemplified by each verse.
	sunnyway.com /runes/prose_edda.html (376 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The purely mythological portion of the Elder Edda was translated and published by A.S. Cottle, in Bristol, in 1797, and the whole work was translated by Benjamin Thorpe, and published in London in 1866.
		This part of the Younger Edda may thus be said to date back to the year 1230, though the material out of which the mythological system is constructed is of course much older.
		The Younger Edda may in one sense be regarded as the sequal or commentary of the Elder Edda.
	www.stavacademy.co.uk /mimir/youngeranderson.htm (7013 words)

	The Poetic Edda Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		By contrast The Poetic Eddas, the oral literature of Iceland which were finally written down from 1000-1300 A.D, are like big summer movies, full of gore, sex, revenge and apocalyptic violence.
		The impact of these sagas from a sparsely inhabited rocky island in the middle of the Atlantic on world culture is wide-ranging.
		Wagners' operas are largely based on incidents from the Edda, via the Niebelungenlied.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/poe (193 words)

	The Prose Edda Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Prose Edda is a text on Old Norse Poetics, written about 1200 by the Icelandic poet and politican Snorri Sturlson, who also wrote the Heimskringla.
		The Prose Edda contains a wide variety of lore which a Skald (poet) of the time would need to know.
		Hence the Prose Edda is of interest because it contains one of the first attempts to devise a rational explanation for mythological and legendary events.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/pre (142 words)

	Stories in Norse Mythology
		Forever after, Tyr has been known as the god of duty, for he knew it was his duty to make the sacrifice for the greater good.
		The necklace was said to be an emblem of the stars or of the fruitfulness of the earth.
		Hyndla then told Freya "in the beaker bear thou the beer to Ottar, with venom brewed: may it work thy bane!" Freya responded that her (Hyndla's) wicked wish would work no harm, and that Ottar would drink the goodly draught and may all gods then lend Ottar help.
	todd.reimer.com /norse/story.html (9163 words)

	Northvegr - Poetic Edda - Thorpe Trans.
		Sæmund, son of Sigfus, the reputed collector of the poems bearing his name, which is sometimes also called the Elder, and the Poetic, Edda, was of a highly distinguished family, being descended in a direct line from King Harald Hildetönn.
		The first who ascribed to Sæmund the collection of poems known as the Poetic Edda, (2) was Brynjolf Sveinsson, bishop of Skalholt.
		This prelate, who was a zealous collector of ancient manuscripts, found in the year 1643, the old vellum codex, which is the most complete of all the known manuscripts of the Edda; of this he caused a transcript to be made, which he entitled Edda Sæmundi Multiseii.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/poetic2/000.php (792 words)

	Northvegr - Northern European Studies Texts
		One of the most Accurate Translations of the Poetic Edda by Benjamin Thorpe.
		The Oldest Translation of a major portion of the Poetic Edda by A. Cottle.
		English translations of selected lays from the Poetic Edda of the F. Bergmann French translation.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/main.php (2873 words)

	Snorri's Edda (the Prose Edda).
		The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson: Tales from Norse Mythology selected and translated by Jean I. Young.
		History of the Norwegian Kings, "undoubtedly the best history written in the Middle Ages, a large book without a dull page, packed full of thrilling incidents and shrewd characterizations." [Hollander].
		While Snorri Sturluson appears to have been a nasty man, "His fame rests on his literary genius, all in all the greatest of ancient Scandinavia." [Hollander].
	www.baymoon.com /~ariadne/poets/snorri.edda.htm (2231 words)

	Odsmal, profound edda, science of heathenry - Homepage -
		Myths and poems of anciend edda are explained in the contexts of the Vedas and modern science.
		216 is a mystical number, the number of einherjar in Valhöll; -- and 432 are echoed in edda from yugas (Vedic time-concept, (some zeros lacking here)) and is the number of doors and mansions of divine abodes in norse mythology.
		The profundity of the symbolic language of edda is our next surprice and revelation.
	www.mmedia.is /odsmal (2842 words)

	The nordic mythology...
		In Snorre Sturlassons Edda he was portraied as Balder the kind.
		He had a son, Valand (or as he also was called: Limping Valand or Völand), which was a flsmith an whom one of the sadest edda stories is about.
		The seagod Ägir which is related to the giants but neveretheless has good relations to the gods and his wife the unfaithfull Ran which brings unhappiness to the humans.
	www.luth.se /luth/present/sweden/history/gods/Old_norse_myth.html (1797 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)