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  Edda - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Saemund Sigfusson, who was thus credited with the collection of these poems, was a scion of the royal house of Norway, and lived from about 1055 t o 1132 in Iceland.
Sophus Bugge, indeed, one of the greatest authorities, absolutely rejects the name of Saemund, and is of opinion that the poetic Edda, as we at present hold it, dates from about 1240.
attributed directly to Saemund, is the Song of the Sun, SblarliOl5, which forms a kind of appendix to the poetic Edda.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Edda   (2077 words)

  
 Saemund Magnussun
Saemund was raised in a valley deep in the craggy spires of the Wundvold Mts.
Saemund's Oldest brother died on his first Faring and his next older brother Gyol was affected by a plague when he was a child before Saemund was born.
Saemund's skills as a smith progressed eventually to journeyman and from then on often Farbjorn would enlist Saemund's aid in making two suits of armor for a client that he said was a special order for plate armor, a rare and expensive armor learned long ago from the Var, one that wasn't to be rushed.
www.killershrike.com /SanDora/Characters/PCs/SaemundMagnussun.HTML   (3722 words)

  
 Teutonic Introduction
Adopted by the learned Jon Loptsson, grandson of Saemund the Wise, he passed his early years at Oddi, where his literary tendencies were fostered and cultivated.
Saemund was a scion of the royal house of Norway, who was born in 1056 and died in 1133.
At any rate, scholars are now agreed that Saemund was neither the author nor compiler of the particular Edda which was long associated with his name.
www.earth-history.com /Europe/Teutonic/intro.htm   (8620 words)

  
 The Coming Of The Sentinels
Saemund's gaze drifted from the healer to the sentinel's tent.
Saemund reached a hand out; it was the spirit guardian of their clan, a creature he had never seen in the flesh.
Saemund engaged in hand-to-hand battle with the leader of the group, using his greater height and strength to hammer the other man down, then dragging his sword across his neck with a sharp slash.
www.susans-stories.co.uk /coming.html   (12506 words)

  
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Saemund, 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 Hildetonn.
The youth of Saemund was passed in travel and study, in Germany and France, and, according to some accounts, in Italy.
The Prose, or Younger Edda, is generally ascribed to the celebrated Snorre Sturleson, who was born of a distinguished Icelandic family, in the year 1178, and after leading a turbulent and ambitious life, and being twice the supreme magistrate of the Republic, was killed A.D. 1241,[4] by three of his sons-in-law and a stepson.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/4/7/2/14726/14726.txt   (21506 words)

  
 Teutonic Myth and Legend: Introduction
Happily the quest was fruitful, and the lost manuscript came into the hands
of an Icelandic bishop, who called it for the first time the "Edda of Saemund".
is that Edda is derived from "Oddi", the place where Saemund preached and Snorri studied.
www.sacred-texts.com /neu/tml/tml05.htm   (8584 words)

  
 Per Saemund Bjorkum - Berg og Vatn CD / cdRoots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Per Saemund Bjorkum - Berg og Vatn CD / cdRoots
Per Saemund Bjorkum - Berg og Vatn CD Home Page
A superb recording of Norwegian newly-composed folk music, led by violinist Per Sæmund Bjørkum, with harpist Tone Hulbækmo, organist Kåre Nordstoga, bassist Bjørn Kjellemyr and fiddler Oystein Rudi, in a tribute to two central musicians from the North-Gudbrandsdalen area: Pål Skogum and fiddler-historian Torger Olstad.
www.cdroots.com /grcd-vatn.html   (211 words)

  
 Poetic Edda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Elder or Poetic Edda: Commonly known as Saemund's Edda, Part 1, The Mythological Poems.
) Reprinted 1906 as "The Elder Eddas of Saemund" in Rasmus B. Anderson and J. W. Buel (Eds.) The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson.
The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson, available freely at Project Gutenberg, translated by Benjamin Thorpe (Elder Eddas) and I. Blackwell (Younger Eddas).
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Poetic_Edda   (2157 words)

  
 The Online Books Page: The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson, by Benjamin ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Online Books Page: The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson, by Benjamin Thorpe et al.
The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson
The subject above was assigned automatically to this book based on its call number.
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu /webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp16509   (113 words)

  
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