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1. The Poetic Edda is a much older text.
2. The Poetic Edda is also known as the Sæmundar Edda or the Elder Edda.
3. The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems from the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. (Web site)
4. The Poetic Edda is a collection of 34 Icelandic poems, interspersed with prose dating from the 9th to the 12th century.
5. The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius.

Poetic Edda

1. View our list of 12 available critical essays on Poetic Edda.
2. The Volsunga Saga (the "Saga of the Volsungs") was most likely based on the various poems of the Poetic Edda, and probably the Prose Edda as well.
3. Though the Codex Regius manuscript (Poetic Edda) was younger than that of the Prose Edda, the collection of the poems found in the Poetic Edda were older.
4. Evidence for elves in Norse mythology outside Snorri's work, and in earlier evidence, comes from Skaldic poetry, the Poetic Edda and legendary sagas.

Eddas

1. Texts from the Poetic Edda, some with annotations.
2. The manuscript of the Poetic Edda owned by Sveinsson had been written c. (Web site)
3. According to the Rigsthula (the List of Rig), in the Poetic Edda, Heimdall or Rig was the creator of the human society. (Web site)
4. In the Sigrdrifumal (Poetic Edda), Sigurd found Sigrdrifa (Brynhild) asleep with armour on, in the middle of wall of shields.
5. Many Troth folk try to use only Saxon English for ritual work; Hollander's Poetic Edda shows how this may be done.

Snorri

1. Here is what I understand of Snorri's work: He quoted extensively from the Poetic Edda.
2. Manigarm is not mentioned in the Poetic Edda, the omission being due to Snorri-s misunderstanding a passage in the Eddic poem Grímnismál. (Web site)
3. This technology was not intended for the uses to which Snorri Sturluson and the compiler of the Poetic Edda put it, but rather for the needs of the Church.

Old Norse

1. Old Norse poems; the most important non-skaldic verse not included in the Poetic Edda. (Web site)
2. Despite uncritical arrangement and textual corruption, the Poetic Edda is the most valuable collection of texts in Old Norse literature. (Web site)

Poems

1. Sk--rnism--l, one of the poems in the Poetic Edda.
2. Freyr is mentioned in several of the poems in the Poetic Edda.
3. H--vam--l ( Sayings of H--r, Sayings of the high one) is one of the poems of the Poetic Edda.
4. What poems are included in an edition of the Poetic Edda depends on the editor. (Web site)

Gods

1. The second half of the Poetic Edda contains lays about the Germanic heroes. (Web site)
2. English translations from selected lays from the Poetic Edda of the F.G. Bergmann French translation.
3. He is one of the heroes of the Poetic Edda and the Nibelungenlied , and he figures in many different, sometimes inconsistent, legends.
4. Although the Poetic Edda states that goddesses are of the same importance as gods, this is not borne out by a review of the Norse myths.
5. T his is a list of names of gods and elves, giants and dwarfs, animals and monsters, firstly from the myths of the poetic edda, but also of Snorri's edda.

Elder

1. One is called the Elder or Poetic Edda; the other, Snorri's or the Prose Edda. (Web site)
2. The Poetic Edda or Elder Edda (also incorrectly refered to as the S-mundr Edda) is a term applied to two things.
3. Most of the tales about the Norse gods come from the Poetic Edda (also called Elder Edda) which was recorded in the manuscript called Codex Regis (c.

Heroic

1. Readings of mythological and heroic poems from Poetic Edda.
2. The Poetic Edda can be divided into two sections, a mythical one and a heroic one. (Web site)

Codex Regius

1. These were the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda and Flateyjarbók.
2. The following is from the V-lusp- 'Prophecy of the Seeress', first poem of the Poetic Edda as found in the Codex Regius. (Web site)
3. Some poems similar to those found in Codex Regius are normally also included in editions of the Poetic Edda. (Web site)

Icelandic

1. Thiodrek was only known in a couple of Icelandic poems of the Poetic Edda.
2. Rune Magic in the Poetic Edda Rune magic can be found in much of Old Icelandic literature.
3. Similarly, as stated earlier, the Old Icelandic sources (the Poetic Edda and the sagas) often make reference to runic spells.

Poetry

1. The first is Eddaic poetry, which is found in the Poetic Edda. (Web site)
2. Ever and again he fortifies his narrative with citations from the Poetic Edda, the great treasure-house of Scandinavian mythological and heroic poetry.
3. Fortunately the poems of the Poetic Edda are remarkably free of such kennings, and in many other ways differ from the poetry of the skalds or court poets. (Web site)

Volsunga Saga

1. Snorri himself, in the course of this book, re-tells "Voluspa" (from the Poetic Edda) and gives a brief synopsis of the Volsunga Saga. (Web site)
2. The works most often cited as sources for Tolkien's stories include Beowulf, the Kalevala, the Poetic Edda, the Volsunga saga and the Hervarar saga.

Translation

1. WH Auden's translation of the Poetic Edda is wonderful.
2. The booklet that comes with the CD is essential, with beautiful translations of the poems that put Caroline Larrington's Poetic Edda to shame.
3. Northvegr's (formally Midhnott Sol) website site carries the Thorp and Bellows translations of the Poetic Edda, now in the public domain. (Web site)

Cycle

1. The Skaldskaparmal also deal more briefly the Nibelungen cycle than the Poetic Edda.
2. Tyrfing - a cursed sword from the Tyrfing Cycle, which includes the Hervarar saga and parts of the Poetic Edda.
3. Modern scholars have the Poetic Edda divided the collection of poems into two groups, the mythological section and the heroic section.

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