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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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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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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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Snorri Sturluson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...critic, and saga teller, the leading figure in medieval Norse literature. He was the author of the invaluable Prose Edda (see Edda ), a treatise on the art of poetry and a compendium of Norse mythology. His great saga the Heimskringla recounts...
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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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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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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...became his travel manager and the mother of their five children—Vladimir Stefan, Nadia Liza, Dmitri Thor, Sonia Edda, and Alexandra Inga. From Russia to the World Beginning his musical career at the keyboard, Ashkenazy clenched his place as...
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Wayland Smith
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Oxfordshire). He appears in the Old English Beowulf and Deor and in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth. The story of his Norse cognate, Völund, appears at length in the Elder Edda. To the German peoples he is known as Wieland.
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Icelandic literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...writings were still venerated. In the 13th and 14th cent. the sagas of antiquity flourished; many were based on Eddic poems (see Edda ). Chivalric romances appeared c.1300, emphasizing classical and ecclesiastical themes and showing French influence. From...
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