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	The Prose Edda Index
		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/index.htm (142 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Poetic Edda (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Poetic-Edda (846 words)

	Edda - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Edda
		He was the author of the invaluable Prose Edda (see Edda), a treatise on the art of poetry and a compendium of Norse mythology.
		Prose Edda is a collection of Norse mythology and a discussion of the art of poetry.
		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 /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Edda (678 words)

	Edda - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		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.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Edda.html (229 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology
		Prose Edda is a work without predecessor or parallel.
		Prose Edda was designed as a handbook for poets to compose in the style of the skalds of the Viking ages.
		Although a decent translation of Snorri's Prose Edda; it lacks the depth of the Faulkes' translation.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=0520234774 (1289 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)

	Cycle of the Ring
		The Prose Edda was written in the early of the 13th century, probably 1220.
		The poems in the Poetic Edda were a great influence to the Volsunga Saga, though some of the poems were slightly different to the saga.
		Prose Edda was written by Snorri Sturluson, in c.
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/ring.html (3969 words)

	Eat Healthy. Live Happy. - The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology
		The "Prose Edda" is the main source for a great deal of what we know (or think we know) about the myths and legends of pre-Christian Scandinavia; and often has guided, not always for the better, the interpretation of other, less entertaining or more opaque sources.
		Of all the translations of the Prose Edda only Faulks translates all three books and all three have important lore required by the earnest seeker of the lore of the Northern European peoples.
		The first section of THE PROSE EDDA, Gylfaginning, details the various mythologies of the time, delivered in the form of a conversation between the High Ones and the crafty King Gylfi.
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	Online Etymology Dictionary
		prose (13c.), from L. prosa oratio "straightforward or direct speech" (without the ornaments of verse), from prosa, fem.
		Meaning "having the character of prose (in contrast to the feeling of poetry)" is 1746; extended sense of "ordinary" is 1813, both from Fr.
		O.E. ontemn, antefn, "a composition (in prose or verse) sung antiphonally," from L.L. antefana, from Gk.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=prose (615 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 /mythica/articles/e/edda.html (159 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).
		The Prose Edda was written by the Icelandic chieftain, poet, and historian Snorri Sturluson, probably in 1222-23.
		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)

	Prose Edda (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This colourful front page of the Prose Edda in an 18th century Icelandic manuscript shows Odin, Heimdallr, Sleipnir and other figures from Norse mythology.
		The Prose Edda, known also as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda is an Icelandic manual of poetics which contains many stories from Norse mythology.
		The Prose Edda opens with a Prologue and consists of three distinct books: the Gylfaginning (c 20,000 words), the Skáldskaparmál (c 50,000 words) and the Háttatal (c 20,000 words).
	zoloft.donkeylink.com /en/Younger_Edda.htm (224 words)

	Poetic Edda - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Poetic 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.
		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.
	www.recipeland.com /facts/Poetic_Edda (1995 words)

	-- MONAS.nl -- article - edda & hermetica (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the first results of the creative process in the Edda is the first of the frost-Giants: Ymir/Aurgelmer who is the result of the interaction between the ice and fire.
		But no, there are no men and women in the Edda yet, well just wait: "Bor maried a woman whose name was Bestla" and "It is said that when he (Ymir) slept he fell into a sweat, and then there grew under his left arm a man and a woman".
		Edda by Marcel Otten (poetic Edda in Dutch).
	www.monas.nl /think/eddahermetica.htm (1501 words)

	THE PROSE EDDA - FULL TEXT - IN FOUR PARTS - PART ONE - INTRODUCTION. - BY SNORRI STURLUSON - TRANSLATED FROM THE ...
		and poetry, of his race, in a prose that is one of the glories of the age.
		The third section of the Edda is the Háttatal, or Enumeration of Metres, and combines three separate songs of praise: one on King Hákon, a second on Skúli Bárdsson, the King's father-in-law and most powerful vassal, and a third celebrating both.
		Now the Poetic Edda was ascribed by its earliest recorded possessor, Bishop Brynjólf Sveinsson, to Sæmundr; and while it is improbable that Sæmundr composed the poem, it is highly probable that it once formed part of his library at Oddi.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /edda01.htm (5270 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Snorri Sturluson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was the author of the Prose Edda or Younger Edda, which is comprised of Gylfaginning ("the fooling of Gylfe"), a narrative of Norse mythology, the Skáldskaparmál, a book of poetic language, and the Háttatal, a list of verse forms.
		He was also the author of the Heimskringla, a history of the Norse kings that begins, in Ynglinga saga with the legendary history, and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history.
		As an historian and mythographer, Snorri is remarkable for proposing the theory (in the Prose Edda) that mythological gods begin as human war leaders and kings whose funereal sites develop cults (see euhemerism).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Snorri-Sturluson (2319 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)

	Edda at AllExperts
		The Edda are collections of poetically narrated folk-tales relating to Norse Mythology or Norse heroes.
		The Poetic Edda, also known as SÃ¦mundar Edda or the Elder Edda, is a collection of Old Norse poems from the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius.
		The Prose Edda consists of a Prologue and three separate books: the Gylfaginning (c 20 000 words), the SkÃ¡ldskaparmÃ¡l (c 50 000 words) and the HÃ¡ttatal (c 20 000 words).
	en.allexperts.com /e/e/ed/edda.htm (551 words)

	Prose Edda - Index
		The "Younger Edda", "Prose Edda" or "Snorra Edda" was another collection of mythical and heroic poems.
		The Prose Edda hasn't much luck and was censured by the Catholizism.
		But in the Prose Edda the meaning of the word could also be a variation of the roman word edico (announce, declear).
	www.cybersamurai.net /Mythology/nordic_gods/LegendsSagas/Edda/ProseEdda/Index.htm (108 words)

	Psychonomicon's Introduction to the Prose Edda
		It must be admitted that Snorri's Edda makes an appeal to the modem reader mainly because the author, in relating the Deluding of Gylfi, forgot the chief purpose of his book and, in his account of their doings and destiny, brought the gods to life again entirely for their own sakes.
		The Prose Edda, with which this translation is concerned, was intended as a handbook for poets who, in Snorri's day, were forgetting how to compose in the 'high style' of their predecessors, the skalds or court poets of the Viking Age.
		The present translation, therefore, consists of narrative portions of The Prose Edda: it includes the whole of The Deluding of Gylfi and all the longer heroic tales incorporated in Poetic Diction.
	members.tripod.com /~ideomagi/library/prosentr.htm (4691 words)

	ANALYSIS OF THE LORE OF TÝR (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Eddas give more detailed and explicit information than any other source, and data from other sources must be evaluated in large part on the basis of Eddaic knowledge.
		Prose Edda is in part Snorri Sturluson’s interpretation and paraphrasing of poetic myths.
		Prose Edda, Týr is “the most daring and intrepid”, “bravest and most valiant”, or “boldest and most courageous”.
	pages.prodigy.net /gary_s/oerp/appendixc_tyr.htm (5203 words)

	Dr. Samuel Sinner (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda introduction, the Norse “gods” are said to be actually nothing more than mere ancient mortals who with the long passage of time were immortalized and divinized by the superstitious gullibility of the masses.
		But in the main body of the Prose Edda an alternate explanation surfaces—namely, that the Aesir are truly transcendent divine powers, and that Odin is indeed the creator of the cosmos and father of all the gods.
		In chapters 3-4 of the Prose Edda, it is said that after the world destruction of Ragnarök, the righteous will live forever with Odin in the heavenly temple called Gimle (also called Vingolf).
	www.angelfire.com /moon/drsinner/NorseAvatar.html (332 words)

	Edda \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		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 Younger Edda, in which the verses are rendered in prose form by Snorri Sturlusson, a pupil of Saemund's grandson in the school at Oddi, contains some material which has been omitted or lost from the poetic version.
		A large part of Snorri's Edda is devoted to Skaldskaparmal, a treatise on the rules of alliteration and meter that apply in the creation of poetry, and the uses of kenningar -- a type of word play giving suggestive descriptions instead of the words commonly used to designate people, gods, and things.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Edda (479 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.
		The Prose Edda then goes on to describe how the first true man (Ash) and woman (Elm) are made out of trees by Odin.
	www.runeschool.org /courses/intro_02/06_literature3.htm (2199 words)

	- Chapter 33
		The poems of the Poetic Edda (sometimes called the Elder Edda) cover various aspects of Norse myth, mythic history, and folklore.
		Put in short terms, the Poetic Edda is a confusing hodgepodge which hadn't particularly interested me when I read it twenty years ago.
		I paraphrased the complete Poetic Edda, and took notes on the Prose Edda (or Snorri Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson, Iceland's greatest literary figure, in the thirteenth century) and the Volsung Saga (which covers the material in the missing portion of the Poetic Edda).
	www.baen.com /library/0671577875/0671577875__33.htm (605 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		VÃ¶luspÃ¡ (Prophecy of the Seeress) is the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda.
		The poem is preserved whole in the Codex Regius and HauksbÃ³k manuscripts while parts of it are quoted in the Prose Edda.
		1334), and many of its stanzas are quoted or paraphrased in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (composed ca.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Voluspa (683 words)

	Legends - Sagas and Sea-Kings (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		Sagas are prose tales of kings, warriors, poets, and explorers; some are historical chronicles, some are pure fiction, and some (in the way of much medieval literature) partake of both fact and fiction.
		Early Scandinavian literature, prose or poetry, is rich in heroic tales of kings, elves, seeresses, explorers, dwarves, magic-wielders and sword-bearers; its influence colors much of the imaginative literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
	legends.duelingmodems.com /sagas/northern.html (676 words)

	Poetic Edda Index
		The name "Saemundr Edda" is wrong, 'couse now we know that Saemundr wasn't the autor, maybe it hadn't one single autor.
		The poems were written around 1270 or 1240 (meanin' that they are younger than the Prose Edda).
		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/Index.htm (276 words)

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