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	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)

	Encyclopedia: Younger Edda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Younger, or Prose, Edda (circa 1220) is the...
		The Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda 5.5.3...
		The Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda The Eddas...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Younger_Edda (1600 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Younger Edda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Younger Edda, known also as the "Prose Edda" or "Snorri's Edda" is an Icelandic manual of poetics which also contains many mythological stories.
		Its purpose was to enable Old Norse poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, and to grasp the meaning behind the many kennings that were used in the skaldic tradition.
		The Younger 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).
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/yo/Younger_Edda (150 words)

	Info and facts on 'Younger Edda' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Younger Edda, known also as the "Prose Edda" or "Snorris Edda" is an Icelandic (A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Iceland) manual of poetics which also contains many mythological stories.
		The Younger Edda consists of three distinct sections: the Gylfaginning (additional info and facts about Gylfaginning) (c 20 000 words), the Skáldskaparmál (additional info and facts about Skáldskaparmál) (c 50 000 words) and the Háttatal (additional info and facts about Háttatal) (c 20 000 words).
		See also: Edda (Either of two distinct works in Old Icelandic dating from the late 13th century and consisting of 34 mythological and heroic ballads composed between 800 and 1200; the primary source for Scandanavian mythology), Elder Edda (additional info and facts about Elder Edda).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/Y/Yo/Younger_Edda.htm (171 words)

	Edda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The word edda is found in the inscription on one of the manuscripts of the Younger Edda, but why it was so called is not very clear.
		This would imply that the Younger Edda was so called from that portion of the manuscript which sets forth these laws of prosody.
		It led to the printing of the Younger Edda and to researches which brought to light a large number of songs and sagas of great value in the study of the northern nations.
	www.factopia.com /aiton-encyclopedia-vol2/edda.htm (1059 words)

	Edda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Edda are collections of poetically narrated folk-tales relating to Norse Mythology or Norse heroes.
		These are fragmentary parts of a (presumably) much larger scaldic tradition of oral narration which has been written down by scholars prior to the tales being lost absolutely.
		THE ELDER EDDAS AND THE YOUNGER EDDAS, Eng.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edda (206 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Edda
		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.
		Edda, the bishop concluded that this was Snorri's source and so he called the
		caused to be made the title "Edda Saemundi multiscii" (Edda of Saemund the wise), and the title "Edda" has since then remained in general use to designate the kind of poems found in the "Codex Regius".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05280a.htm (970 words)

	Edda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In myths the representative of death is usually said to be a child of mind: in the Edda she is the daughter of Loki (fire of mind) and of the giantess Angerboda (boder of regret).
		The Eddas relate that elves (human souls) sleep among the gods when they are feasting on the mead of a past period of life (experience); thus the resting souls are present in the divine spheres even through unconscious of their surroundings.
		The Edda's frost giants should not be confused with the giants and their daughter giantesses, or giant maidens, which represent periods of life and activity.
	www.experiencefestival.com /edda (1938 words)

	Edda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Undermining and en-gendering vengeance: distancing and anti-feminism in the Poetic Edda.
		Seafood is a perishable category that EDDA had already begun to take under its wing...
		Rankin was a graduate of Louisville Vo-Tech School and later attended the University of Louisville earning an EDDA, a BS and an MEd.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Edda (383 words)

	Prose Edda
		The Elder or Poetic Edda, The Younger or Prose Edda, et alia...
		The Prologue to the Prose Edda, by Snorre Sturelson...
		Prose Edda" was designed as a handbook for poets to compose in the style of the skalds of the Viking ages...
	www.writingspot.com /141/prose-edda.html (496 words)

	Edda -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9363406 (677 words)

	Edda. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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)

	Edda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Edda were the sagas and myth of nordic mythology, written in icelandic.
		The name Elder Edda isn't that wrong, 'couse the basis of the poems is older than that of the Prose Edda.
		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/E/Edda.htm (210 words)

	Younger Edda: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Younger Edda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Its purpose was to enable Old Norse poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, and to grasp the meaning behind the many kennings that were used in the skaldic tradition.
		The Younger 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).
		Snorra Edda (http://www.heathenry.org/heathenry/lore/snorra-edda/index.html) (Snorri's Edda), in Old Norse, with partial English translation
	www.encyclopedian.com /yo/Younger-Edda.html (156 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.
		Thus the Younger Edda is very much concerned with literary style and is a very different creature from the Elder Edda.
	www.runeschool.org /courses/intro_02/06_literature3.htm (2199 words)

	Northvegr - Prose Edda - Anderson Trans.
		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 Elder Edda is poetry, while the Younger Edda is mainly prose.
		The Younger Edda may in one sense be regarded as the sequal or commentary of the Elder Edda.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/prose2/001_03.php (1825 words)

	-- MONAS.nl -- article - edda & hermetica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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)

	Elder Edda: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Elder Edda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is traditionally attributed to Saemund the Wise[?].
		It was presumed lost until 1643 when the then Bishop of Skálholt, Brynjólfur Sveinnson[?], discovered a manuscript dating back at least to the 13th century containing many verses which had been referenced by Snorri Sturluson in the Younger Edda.
		Many of the poems in it are written in the ljóðaháttr, a traditional form of alliterative verse.
	www.encyclopedian.com /el/Elder-Edda.html (233 words)

	Read about Younger Edda at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Younger Edda and learn about Younger Edda here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Younger Edda, known also as the "Prose Edda" or "Snorris Edda" is an
		Edda by Snorri Sturluson, Anthony Faulkes (Translator), Everymans Library,
		Prose Edda - Rasmus B. Anderson translation (1897) (http://www.northvegr.org/lore/prose2/index.php)
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Prose_Edda (177 words)

	Edda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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 Poetic Edda can be divided into two sections, a mythical one and a heroic one.
	www.ugcs.caltech.edu /~cherryne/myth.cgi/Edda.html (764 words)

	Isis Metaphysical Books Article: An Intro to Norse, Viking, Odinist, & Teutonic Religious History and Modern Practice
		Younger sons of the landed class were not eligible to inherit the land, and thus had no means of substantial income or employment.
		These younger sons took to the seas in wooden boats, raiding and trading as far south as the Mediterranean and as far west as North America.
		Edda, (Everyman's Library, 1987) A more deeply indexed version of the Prose, or Elder, Edda, with more direct translations in the Skaldskaparmal, and also including the third part of the Edda, an honorific poem entitled Hattatal.
	www.isisbooks.com /norse.asp (2046 words)

	Norse Commentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		From P.C. Asbjornsen), N.Y.: 1859; Thorpe's translation of Saemund's Edda, 2 v., Lond.: 1866; Icelandic Poetry or Edda of Saemund transl.
		The Younger Edda: Edda Snorra Sturlasonar, 2 v.
		Illustrative poems: Gray, Ode on the Descent of Odin, Ode on the Fatal Sisters; Matthew Arnold's Balder Dead; Longfellow's Tegner's Drapa, on Balder's Death; The Funeral of Balder, by William Morris, in the Lovers of Gudrun (Earthly Paradise); Robert Buchanan's Balder the Beautiful; W.M.W. all, Balder and Thor.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~mintonpi/project/Ncommentary.html (612 words)

	Edda on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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.
		An interview with Edda, daughter of Benito and Rachele Mussolini.
		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 (523 words)

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		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.
		Be this as it may, the Prose Edda, in its present form, dates from the thirteenth century, and consists of--1.
		Then Edda from the ashes took a loaf, heavy and thick, and with bran mixed; more besides she laid on the middle of the board; there in a bowl was broth on the table set, there was a calf boiled, of cates most excellent.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/4/7/2/14726/14726.txt (21506 words)

	biology - Gimle
		The Younger Edda describes Gimle as the hall that was "fairest of all and brighter than the sun," situated at the southernmost point of Asgard.
		But according to the Younger Edda, despite the apocalypse of Ragnarok in which the gods themselves would perish, Odin had made man with a soul that would live forever.
		The Younger Edda says that Gimle shall stand when both heaven and Earth have passed away, and in that place shall live good and righteous people for ever and ever.
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/Gimle (248 words)

	Norse Mythology - The Eddas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The two primary written sources for Norse mythology are the Prose (Younger) Edda and the Poetic (Elder) Edda, written in Iceland in the 13th century.
		This is a complete translation of the entire Prose (Younger) Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson around 1220 AD.
		Originally compiled in the 13th century, the poems in the Poetic (Elder) Edda were composed from the 9th to the 11th centuries.
	www.heartoglory.com /celtic/norse-mythology.htm (825 words)

	Chapter Saga <i>to</i> Sailor King of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		The original Edda was compiled and edited by Sæmund Sigfusson, an Icelandic priest and scald, in the eleventh century.
		The Edda is divided into two parts and twenty-eight lays or poetical sagas.
		The other sagas in the Edda are “The Song of Lodbrok” or “Lodbrog,” “Hervara Saga,”; the “Vilkina Saga,”; the “Blomsturvalla Saga,”; the “Ynglinga Saga”; (all relating to Norway), the “Jomsvikingia Saga”; and the “Knytlinga Saga”; (which pertain to Denmark), the “Sturlunga Saga”; and the “Eryrbiggia Saga”; (which pertain to Iceland).
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1129/14967/1.html (575 words)

	Amazon.com: Edda (Everyman's Library): Books: Snorri Sturluson,Anthony Faulkes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There are two chief sources for the Norse myths, the Elder (Poetic) Edda and the Younger (Prose) Edda.
		This is a translation of the Prose Edda and includes the creation of the earth from the remains of the giant Ymir, the death of Baldr, the twilight of the gods (Ragnarök), and certain stories of Sigurd and Brynhild (Siegfried and Brünnhilde in Wagner's operas).
		Edda was written as a handbook for poets and scholars, to aid in understanding ancient Scandinavian poetry, which was thick with mythological allusions.
	www.amazon.com /Edda-Everymans-Library-Snorri-Sturluson/dp/0460876163 (1552 words)

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