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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 in Iceland during the early 13th century. The work is often considered to have been to some extent written, or at least compiled, by the Icelandic scholar, lawspeaker , and historian Snorri ...
"Edda" (/ ˈ ɛ d ə /; Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur) is an Old Norse term that has been applied by modern scholars to the collective of two Medieval Icelandic literary works: what is now known as the Prose Edda and an older collection of poems (without an original title) now known as the Poetic Edda.
The Old Icelandic form Amlóði is recorded twice in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.According to the section Skaldskaparmal, the expression Amlóða mólu ('Amlóði's quern-stone') is a kenning for the sea, grinding the skerries to sand.
Gylfi is tricked in an illustration from Icelandic Manuscript, SÁM 66. Gylfaginning (Old Norse: 'The Beguiling of Gylfi' or 'The Deluding of Gylfi'; [1] [2] 13th century Old Norse pronunciation [ˈɟʏlvaˌɟɪnːɪŋɡ]) is the first main part of the 13th century Prose Edda, after the initial Prologue.
Völuspá hin skamma (Old Norse: 'The Short Völuspá) [1] is an Old Norse poem which survives as a handful of stanzas in Hyndluljóð, in the Poetic Edda, and as one stanza in the Gylfaginning section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. The name of the poem is only known due to Snorri's citation of it in Gylfaginning (chapter 5):
The Prologue is the first section of four books of the Prose Edda, and consists of a euhemerized account of the origins of Norse mythology.According to the Prologue, the Norse gods originate from the Trojans described in Homer's poetry, and are King Priam's descendants.
The trio of norns at the well Urðarbrunnr as depicted in Fredrik Sander's 1893 translation of the Poetic Edda.Wood engraving by L. B. Hansen. Urðarbrunnr (Old Norse "Wellspring of Urðr"; either referring to a Germanic concept of fate—urðr—or the norn named Urðr [1]) is a spring or well in Norse mythology.
The Skáldskaparmál is both a retelling of Norse legend as well as a treatise on poetry. It is unusual among surviving medieval European works as a poetic treatise written both in and about the poetry of a local vernacular language, Old Norse; other Western European works of the era were on Latin language poetry, as Latin was the language of scholars and learning.