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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 ...
High, Just-As-High, and Third converse with Gangleri.Art from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript. Hár, Jafnhár [ˈjɑvnˌhɑːrː], and Þriði (anglicized as Thridi) [a] are three men on thrones who appear in the Prose Edda in the Gylfaginning ("The Beguiling of Gylfi"), one of the oldest and most important sources on Norse mythology.
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 ...
"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 pair are attested in both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, composed in the 13th century. In both sources, three gods, one of whom is Odin, find Ask and Embla and bestow upon them various corporeal and spiritual gifts. A number of theories have been proposed to explain the ...
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.
Svipdag's mother, Gróa, has been identified as the same völva who chanted a piece of Hrungnir's hone from Thor's head after their duel, as detailed in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. [4] There, Gróa is the wife of Aurvandil, a man Thor rescues from certain death on his way home from Jötunheim .
The Háttatal (Old Norse: 'Tally of Metres'; [1] c. 20,000 words; Old Norse: [ˈhɑːtːɑtɑl], Modern Icelandic: [ˈhauhtaˌtʰaːl̥]) is the last section of the Prose Edda composed by the Icelandic poet, politician, and historian Snorri Sturluson. Using, for the most part, his own compositions, it exemplifies the types of verse forms used ...