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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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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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)
time. 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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Brísingamen (section Poetic Edda)
brísingr, a poetic term for "fire" or "amber" mentioned in the anonymous versified word-lists (þulur) appended to many manuscripts of the Prose Edda, making...
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Gungnir (section Poetic Edda)
the target of the attacker regardless of the attacker's skill. In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the Æsir-Vanir War is described as officially starting...
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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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Vígríðr (section Poetic Edda)
field is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material, and in the Prose Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson...
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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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Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr (section Poetic Edda)
mythology. They are attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson...
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Baldr (section Poetic Edda)
the 13th century, but based on older Old Norse poetry, the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda contain numerous references to the death of Baldr as both a...
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Fenrir (section Poetic Edda)
Angrboða. He is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, composed in...
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Odin (section Poetic Edda)
Odin to "own" them. Odin is mentioned or appears in most poems of the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from traditional source material reaching...
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Mímisbrunnr (section Poetic Edda)
Mímisbrunnr 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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Hel (mythological being) (section Poetic Edda)
dead. Hel 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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Jörð (section Poetic Edda)
historian Saxo Grammaticus; the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century by an unknown individual or individuals; and the Prose Edda, also composed in the 13th...
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Sól (Germanic mythology) (section Poetic Edda)
mythology, Sól 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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Sif (section Poetic Edda)
earth. Sif 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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Valhalla (section Poetic Edda)
Valhalla is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, in the Prose Edda (written in the 13th century...
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Loki (section Poetic Edda)
Ragnarök. Loki is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources: the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, written in the...
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Dagr (section Poetic Edda)
mythology. He appears 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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Garmr (section Poetic Edda)
opinion does not establish a relationship between the two names. The Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál mentions Garmr: The best of trees | must Yggdrasil be...
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Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán (section Poetic Edda)
reflects poetic terms for waves. The sisters are attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda, composed...
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Heiðrún (section Poetic Edda)
her udders for the einherjar. She is described in the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda. In the Poetic Edda Heiðrún is mentioned twice. She is described in the...
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Iðunn (section Poetic Edda)
youth. Iðunn 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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Víðarr (section Poetic Edda)
surviving. Víðarr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by...
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