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Debat oor Christendom en Godsdiens
The Poetic Edda
Translated from the Icelandic text.
By Henry Adams Bellows 1936
Table of Contents.
The Poetic Edda is a manuscript dating from the second half of the 13th century, containing older materials, hence its alternative title, the Elder Edda. It is a collection of mythological and heroic poems of unknown authorship, composed over a long period (ad 800–1100). They are usually dramatic dialogues in a terse, simple, archaic style.
The Poetic Eddas are the oral literature of Iceland, which were finally written down from 1000 to 1300 C.E. The Eddas are a primary source for our knowledge of ancient Norse pagan beliefs. This translation of the Poetic Eddas by Henry Adams Bellows is highly readable.
The poems are great tragic literature, with vivid descriptions of the emotional states of the protagonists, Gods and heroes alike. Women play a prominent role in the Eddic age, and many of them are delineated as skilled warriors.
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. -- John Bruno Hare
Lays of the Gods
Voluspo Hovamol Vafthruthnismol Grimnismol Skirnismol Harbarthsljoth Hymiskvitha Lokasenna Thrymskvitha Alvissmol Baldrs Draumar Rigsthula Hyndluljoth SvipdagsmolLays of the Heroes
Völundarkvitha Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar Helgakvitha Hundingsbana I Helgakvitha Hundingsbana II Fra Dautha Sinfjotla Gripisspo Reginsmol Fafnismol Sigrdrifumol Brot Af Sigurtharkvithu Guthrunarkvitha I Sigurtharkvitha En Skamma Helreith Brynhildar Drap Niflunga Guthrunarkvitha II, En Forna Guthrunarkvitha III Oddrunargratr Atlakvitha En Grönlenzka Atlamol En Grönlenzku Guthrunarhvot HamthesmolThe Poetic Edda, also called the Elder Edda:
There are two types of Edda, and both originate from Iceland. There's the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda. The Prose Edda was used more like an instruction book for young poets. The Poetic Edda was used to record mythological and heroic poems.
Wass written in 1270 and contains material centuries older.
The author is not known, Bishop Brynjolfur Sveinsson complied and named the collection.
It consists of Norse mythology stories and myths, heroic poems and legends, and heroic lays.
It functioned like a reference and teachable material for any myth, legend, hero, or god.
Commonly, lines were split by a caesure, alliteration was used, and stanzas contain four lines.
The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily contained in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. The Poetic Edda is one of the largest source of information from Norse mythology, containing stories of Norse gods like Loki and Óðinn, creatures and mortal and Norse heroes.
