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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.
Echoes of Valhalla: The Afterlife of the Eddas and Sagas is a non-fiction book by Jón Karl Helgason. An English-language version, translated by Jane Appleton, was published by Reaktion Books in 2017. The books describes the legacy of Icelandic mythology and sagas and their impact on modern works.
The sagas of Icelanders (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur, modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈislɛndiŋkaˌsœːɣʏr̥]), also known as family sagas, are a subgenre, or text group, of Icelandic sagas. They are prose narratives primarily based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early eleventh centuries ...
Television in Iceland is composed of the public broadcasting service of RÚV, five free-to-view channels and a number of subscription channels provided by private broadcasters. Broadcasts began in 1955 when the American Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) started an English-language television service broadcasting from Naval Air Station ...
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 ...
Full text and translations at the Icelandic Saga Database; Icelandic Saga Map – an online digital map with the geo-referenced texts of all of the Íslendingasögur; Proverbs in Grettis saga; Gísla saga - Another Icelandic saga with a main character who becomes an outlaw. Russell Poole, "Myth, Psychology, and Society in Grettis saga ...
Nevertheless, written Icelandic has changed relatively little since the 13th century. As a result of this, and of the similarity between the modern and ancient grammar, modern speakers can still understand, more or less, the original sagas and Eddas that were written some 800 years ago. This ability is sometimes mildly overstated by Icelanders ...
Gettu betur is a popular annual quiz tournament pitting teams from senior secondary schools around Iceland against each other in five rounds which are broadcast on radio and TV. Popular viewing also includes the Eurovision Song Contest , to which RÚV has sent participants on Iceland's behalf since 1986.