The Poetic Edda
- Language:
- English
- Translation:
- Bellows
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Anonymous or composite
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors · 37 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~170,000 words · 807 passages
Cite this work
- APAPoetic Edda. (n.d.). The Poetic Edda. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/poetic-edda/the-poetic-edda
- MLAPoetic Edda. "The Poetic Edda." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/poetic-edda/the-poetic-edda.
- ChicagoPoetic Edda. The Poetic Edda. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/poetic-edda/the-poetic-edda.
What it is about
The Eddic poems: songs about the Norse gods and about heroes, among them the Völuspá, which tells the origin and the end of the world.
Context and history
It should not be confused with the other Edda: this one is anonymous and is poetry; Snorri Sturluson's, which is also in the catalogue, is prose and is a handbook he wrote three hundred years after the matters it relates. The poems survive almost entirely in a single manuscript, the Codex Regius, which was lost until 1643. Which is to say: the Norse mythology we know depends largely on one book that turned up by chance.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
This series of Scandinavian Classics is published by The American-Scandinavian Foundation in the belief that greater familiarity with the chief literary monuments of the North will help Americans to a better understanding of Scandinavians, and thus serve to stimulate their sympathetic coöperation to good ends. To George Lyman Kittredge SCANDINAVIAN CLASSICS VOLUMES XXI AND XXII THE POETIC EDDA ESTABLISHED BY NIELS POULSON THIS VOLUME IS ENDOWED IN PART BY CHARLES S. PETERSON OF CHICAGO CONTENTS [1] General Introduction xi Lays of the Gods Voluspo 1 Hovamol 28 Vafthruthnismol 68 Grimnismol 84 Skirnismol 107 Harbarthsljoth 121 Hymiskvitha 138 Lokasenna 151 Thrymskvitha 174 Alvissmol 183 Baldrs Draumar 195 Rigsthula 201 Hyndluljoth 217 Svipdagsmol 234 Lays of the Heroes
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