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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 ...
Sigrdrífumál (also known as Brynhildarljóð [1]) is the conventional title given to a section of the Poetic Edda text in Codex Regius. It follows Fáfnismál without interruption, and it relates the meeting of Sigurðr with the valkyrie Brynhildr, here identified as Sigrdrífa ("driver to victory"). [2]
The poetic Edda, translated from the Icelandic with an introduction and notes. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation. (Reprint: Princeton University Press, 1936 Sacred-texts) Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist, trans. (1916). The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Byock, Jesse, trans. (2005).
Written sources come mainly from the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, but also from the saga.Although they do not always contain many mythological elements, they do provide a precise idea of the cults paid to this animal and its importance for the ancient German-Scandinavians, and hence the reasons for its place in the founding texts.
Nafnaþulur (Old Norse: [ˈnɑvnɑˌθulur]) is a subsection of the Prose Edda, the last part of the Skáldskaparmál. It is a listing in verse of names that may be used in poetry for various items, such as gods, jötnar, people, animals, and weapons.
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.
Húsdrápa (Old Norse: 'House-Lay') [1] is a skaldic poem partially preserved in the Prose Edda where disjoint stanzas of it are quoted. It is attributed to the skald Úlfr Uggason. The poem describes mythological scenes carved on kitchen panels. In the stanzas that have come down to us three such scenes are described.
Frá dauða Sinfjötla ("On the death of Sinfjötli") is a short prose piece found in the Codex Regius manuscript of the Poetic Edda. It describes the death of Sinfjötli, son of Sigmundr, connecting Helgakviða Hundingsbana II and Grípisspá. Borghildr, wife of Sigmundr, wanted Sinfjötli, her stepson, dead, as Sinfjötli had killed her ...