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Edda
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Edda , title applied to two distinct works in Old Icelandic. The Poetic Edda, or Elder Edda, is a collection (late 13th cent.) of 34 mythological and heroic lays, most of which were composed c.800-c.1200, probably in Iceland or W Norway...
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Snorri Sturluson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...extensively in his histories, and the second part of his Prose Edda is a catalog of kennings, whose use in poetry is illustrated...contain extensive introductions dealing with his life. The Prose Edda, translated by Jean I. Young (1966), and the Heimskringla...
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Nastrond
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Skada falls on him unceasingly, and it was believed that his shuddering was the cause of earthquakes. Nastrond is featured in the Voluspa, a poem in the Icelandic Poetic Edda. Sources: The Poetic Edda. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.
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Reykholt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Reykholt , farm, SW Iceland, famous since the Middle Ages as the home of the historian Snorri Sturluson , author of the Prose Edda (see Edda ).
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Finnur Magnusson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Copenhagen, he was appointed (1815) professor of Northern literature and mythology there. He compiled, edited, and translated the Elder Edda and published a lexicon of Norse mythology (1828) and works on the origin of the Edda sayings.
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Old Norse literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...discussed as consisting of several types. Eddic writings (see Edda ) were condensations of ancient lays, in alliterative verse...allusive verse, Snorri Sturluson was prompted to write the Prose Edda (c.1222) as a text of scaldic poetry, in a vain attempt...
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Germanic religion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Europe, Germany, and Scandinavia. The main sources for our knowledge are the Germania of Tacitus and the Elder Edda and the Younger Edda. Although it is possible to perceive certain basic concepts that were important to the pre-Christian Germans...
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Nibelungenlied
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Nibelungenlied, a German poem of the 13th cent. embodying a story found in primitive shape in both forms of the Edda . In these the story is substantially as told by W. Morris in Sigurd the Volsung , Sigurd being the Siegfried of the German poem.
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kenning
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...The Old Norse examples are the most important and the most elaborate, especially in skaldic Verse. Snorri Sturluson , in his Edda , urges against kenning having more than six noun-components. Obviously, in poetry where this was one of the most important...
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Iceland
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia
...600 book titles are published every year in Iceland. Among the largest magazine and book publishers are the privately owned Edda and Frodi and the state-run National Centre for Educational Materials. Internet publishing proliferates as well, serving...
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