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	Edda - LoveToKnow 1911
		The collection of Snorri is now known as the Prose or Younger Edda, the title of the Elder Edda being given to a book of ancient mythological poems, discovered by the Icelandic bishop of Skalaholt, Brynjulf Sveinsson, in 1643, and erroneously named by him the Edda of Saemund.
		The fifth section of the Edda, the Hdttatal, or Number of Metres, is a running technical commentary on the text of Snorri's three poems written in honour 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 Vegtamskvioa; but the first good translation of the whole was that published by Benjamin Thorpe in 1866.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Edda (2051 words)

	Cycle of the Ring
		The Prose Edda was a mixture of handbook of Norse myths and the language of poetry, known as the skald poetry.
		The Poetic Edda contained collection of early Icelandic poems that was preserved in the manuscript called the Codex Regius, compiled in the second half of the 13th century.
		Poetic Edda was compiled into the Codex Regius manuscript in the second half of the 13th century.
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/ring.html (3969 words)

	Edda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most well-known are the Icelandic Poetic Edda (also known as Elder Edda) and the Prose Edda (also known as the Younger Edda), both of which were written during the 13th century.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edda (533 words)

	Edda - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		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.
		The Prose Edda, or Younger Edda, was probably written c.1222 by Snorri Sturluson as a guide to the scaldic poetry of Iceland.
		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 /doc/1E1-edda.html (365 words)

	Elder Edda: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		There are two Eddas: The Elder Edda, also known as the Poetic Edda The Younger Edda or the Prose Edda...
		The Elder Edda (also known as the Poetic Edda) was probably written down circa...we know it as the Elder Edda.
		The Elder Edda, also known as the "Poetic Edda" is a collection of Norse mythology.
	www.encyclopedian.com /el/Elder-Edda.html (367 words)

	The Eddas
		There are volumes of the Eddas which were written in the 13th-century commonly distinguished as the Prose (ir Younger Edda) and the Poetic (or Elder Edda).
		It is a textbook on poetics intended to instruct young poets in the difficult metres of the early Icelandic skalds (court poets).
		The Poetic Edda is a later manuscript dating from the second half of the 13th century, but containing older verses (hence its alternative title, the Elder Edda).
	www.janih.com /kitiana/norse/edda.html (731 words)

	DragonBear History: All That: Eddas and Sagas
		Snorri wrote the Edda, he says, because he feared that the knowledge and practice of this poetry was being lost, and he wished to rescue it.
		The heroic tales in the eddas are part of the same cultural milieu as other old Germanic epics (in Old High German or Anglo-Saxon): similar characters, similar memories of the legendary past, similar heroic ethos.
		The eddas and sagas are stories; they are wonderful stories - humorous, dramatic, very accessible to the modern mind - and so the most obvious application of this literature to the SCA is in the art of storytelling.
	www.dragonbear.com /eddas.html (1575 words)

	BibliOdyssey: Norse Edda from Iceland
		The 'Poetic Edda' (or 'Sæmundar Edda' or 'Elder Edda') is a collection of alliterative poems (Edda) from the 13th century Icelandic Codex Regius.
		The 'Younger Edda' (or 'Prose Edda' or 'Snorri Edda'), which includes a narrative of Norse mythology and a manual for understanding the nuances of the alliterative poetics, was written by the Icelandic historian and parliamentarian, Snorri Sturluson, also in the 13th century.
		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.
	bibliodyssey.blogspot.com /2006/08/norse-edda-from-iceland.html (360 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)

	Poetic Edda
		The Poetic Edda can be divided into two sections, a mythical one and a heroic one.
		..."Poetic Edda", which is now preserved in Iceland, was written down toward the end of the 13th century, probably in the years around 1280.
		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)

	Library of Eddas
		The Poetic Edda 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.
		The Prose Edda The Prose Edda or Younger Edda, was written by Snorri Sturluson around 1220 CE.
	members.tripod.com /voices_of_wwpn/eddalibrary.htm (269 words)

	Edda :: Norse : Gourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Poetic Edda - English translations of several heroic poems from the Poetic Edda, by Stephan Grundy.
		The Poetic Edda - Text of the Poetic Edda in the Thorpe translation, including the disputed lays of Hrafnagaldr and Solarljodh.
		The Prose Edda - Text of the Prose Edda as translated by Rasmus B. Anderson, with introduction, notes, and indices.
	arts.gourt.com /Literature/Myths-and-Folktales/Myths/Norse/Edda.html (479 words)

	Bellows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Poetic Edda is not only of great interest to the student of antiquity; it is a collection including some of the most remark able poems which have been preserved to us from the period before the pen and the printing-press.
		From all this it is evident that the Poetic Edda, as we now know it, is no definite and plainly limited work, but rather a more or less haphazard collection of separate poems, dealing either with Norse mythology or with hero-cycles unrelated to the traditional history of greater Scandinavia or Iceland.
		An early assumption was that the word somehow meant "Poetics," which fitted Snorri's treatise to a nicety, but which, in addition to the lack of philological evidence to support this interpretation, could by no stretch of scholarly subtlety be made appropriate to the collection of poems.
	www.irminenschaft.net /bellowsintro.htm (3553 words)

	Poetic Edda - Wikisource
		Also known as the Sæmundar Edda, or the Elder Edda, is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius.
		Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends.
		At that time versions of Snorri's Edda were well known in Iceland but scholars speculated that there once was another Edda, an Elder Edda, which contained the pagan poems which Snorri quotes in his book.
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/Poetic_Edda (708 words)

	The Position of the Woman in the Poetic Edda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Her function is to hold the apples of the eternal youth (Prose Edda, "Gylfaginning", XXVI; "Bragi's Speeches", LVI); the fact is not mentioned in the Poetic Edda.
		The successor of Riigr and Edda is unseemly (ibid., 8).
		As the main charcters of the heroic side of the Poetic Edda are noblemen, kings and daughters of kings, it is understandable that their list is of the greatest number.
	haldjas.folklore.ee /folklore/vol7/llone1.htm (8458 words)

	The Poetic Edda Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		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.
		J.R.R. Tolkien also plundered the Eddas for atmosphere, plot material and the names of many characters in the Hobbit, and the Lord of the Rings.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/poe/index.htm (193 words)

	The Rune School - Courses: INTRO-02 Lesson 6
		As its alternative title suggests, the Younger Edda, is indeed written in prose though it draws heavily on its predecessor as a source.
		The title of the second section of the Younger Edda translates as "Poetic Diction" and introduces various kennings which are a complex metaphorical device found in ancient poetry, explaining the stories behind them.
		That said though there are contradictions sometimes between different parts of the Poetic Edda and that does not stop it from being of interest and use to us.
	www.runeschool.org /courses/intro_02/06_literature3.htm (2199 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.
	www.sunnyway.com /runes/prose_edda.html (376 words)

	The Rune School - Courses: INTRO-01 Lesson 5
		The precise meaning of the term "Edda" is unclear and hence a matter of debate amongst scholars.
		The Elder, or Poetic, Edda is a collection of poems and other material gathered between the 9th and 12th centuries.
		There are two distinct sections to the Poetic Edda, a mythical one consisting of 15 poems and a heroic one of 23 heroic lays.
	www.runeschool.org /courses/intro_01/05_literature2.htm (1198 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Hollander, The Poetic Edda
		We know with a fair degree certainty that Snorri himself named his handbook of poetics "Edda"; but as to the meaning of this word we are dependent on conjecture.
		In the taste of Romanticism he poetically interpreted the title as the ancestral mother of mankind sitting in the circle of her children, instructing them in the lore and learning of the hoary past.
		Like the mass of Old Germanic poetic monuments, the Eddic lays are composed in alliterative verse; in verse, that is, whose essential principles are stress and concomitant alliteration.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exholpoe.html (7226 words)

	Keithley's Fairy Mythology - Edda and Sagas
		The poetic or Sæmund's Edda was, as is generally believed, collected about the end of the eleventh or beginning of the twelfth century by an Icelander named Sæmund, and styled Hinns Fròda, or The Wise.
		It is a history of the gods and their actions formed from the songs of the poetic Edda, and from other ancient poems, several stanzas of which are incorporated in it.
		Sæmund's Edda may be regarded as an Anthology of ancient Scandinavian poetry; and the author of the prose Edda (who it is plain did not always understand the true meaning of the tales he related) wrote it as a northern Pantheon and Gradus ad Parnassum, to supply poets with incidents, ornaments, and epithets.
	www.celtic-twilight.com /otherworld/fairy_mythology/eddas_and_sagas.htm (4905 words)

	EUROPE: Western / Icelandic, Nordic, and Teutonic Traditions
		The Elder or Poetic Edda as we know it was compiled in the thirteenth century in Iceland, but some of its tales (at least) date back to the period of the early German migrations....
		THE POSITION OF THE WOMAN IN THE POETIC EDDA by Loone Ots is a somewhat dry yet informative and comprehensive paper for a fine Estonian on-line journal.
		When Loki appears in the Eddas, it is mostly in his role of Instigator of Conflicts: because of some unfortunate circumstance he is forced to act not according to his own volition but to that of others.
	www.mythinglinks.org /euro~west~icenorteu.html (4697 words)

	Of Thor and Giants
		The Prose Edda was sometimes called the Younger Edda or Snorra Edda.
		There were over 30 poems in the Poetic Edda, which was divided into mythological and heroic sections.
		However, in the Prose Edda, Hymir was frightened by the size of the monster, used his bait-knife to cut off Thor's line.
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/thor.html (4851 words)

	Amazon.com: The Poetic Edda: Books: Lee M. Hollander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology by Snorri Sturluson
		All in all, I would recommend the Poetic Edda to anyone with an interest in medeival literature (or an interest in Wagner or Tolkien)...
		the poetic edda is one of the greatest collections of poetry of all times.
	www.amazon.com /Poetic-Edda-Lee-M-Hollander/dp/0292764995 (2505 words)

	Ragnarok
		When capitalized, Edda will be used in a generic sense, referring to either the Prose Edda or Poetic Edda.
		The Prose Edda is the younger of the two, having been written sometime in the 1200's by the Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson.
		Therefore, if the references to a single, all-powerful god in the Poetic Eddas are in fact referring to the Christian God, then the editing may have done after Snorri's death, and some of the eddic poems may have been written down much later than scholars believe.
	www.spiritpathways.com /ragna.html (2745 words)

	Voluspo
		At the beginning of the collection in the Codex Regius stands the Voluspo, the most famous and important, as it is likewise the most debated, of all the Eddic poems.
		Dvalin: in Hovamol, 144, Dvalin seems to have given magic runes to the dwarfs, probably accounting for their skill in craftsmanship, while in Fafnismol, 13, he is mentioned as the father of some of the lesser Norns.
		This is one of the relatively rare instances in the Eddic poems of the type of poetic diction which characterizes the skaldic verse.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/poe/poe03.htm (5103 words)

	Snorri's Edda (the Prose Edda).
		The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson: Tales from Norse Mythology selected and translated by Jean I. Young.
		His was the genius which may have composed some of the great poems the Poetic Edda."
		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 (2414 words)

	Amazon.com: The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics): Books: Carolyne Larrington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Since the rediscovery of the Poetic Edda in the seventeenth century, its poetry has fascinated artists as diverse as Thomas Gray, Richard Wagner, and Jorge Luis Borges.
		While it's popular to criticise the Hollander translation of The Poetic Edda for being more poetic than accurate, compared to Larrington's version, his is nearly ideal.
		Carol Larrington's translation of the Elder Edda was good if you just want to read the storys but chances are if thats all you wanted from it you would buy something a little more modern.
	www.amazon.com /Poetic-Edda-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0192839462 (2636 words)

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