The Poetic Edda is the modern name for an untitled collection of Old Norse anonymous narrative poems in alliterative verse. It is distinct from the closely...
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Edda and an older collection of poems (without an original title) now known as the Poetic Edda. The term historically referred only to the Prose Edda...
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The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda (Icelandic: Snorra Edda) or, historically, simply as Edda, is an Old Norse textbook written...
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Ymir (section Poetic Edda)
jötnar. Ymir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material, in the Prose Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson...
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Bifröst (section Poetic Edda)
attested as Bilröst in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; as Bifröst in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century...
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Surtr (section Poetic Edda)
giants. Surtr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century...
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Yggdrasil (section Poetic Edda)
Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and in the Prose Edda compiled in the 13th century...
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Höðr (section The Poetic Edda)
slay the otherwise invulnerable Baldr. According to the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, the goddess Frigg, Baldr's mother, made everything in existence...
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Níðhöggr (section Poetic Edda)
Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Available at Google Books. Dronke, Ursula (1997). The Poetic Edda : Volume...
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Ragnarök (section Poetic Edda)
is attested primarily in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century...
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