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Monday, August 18, 2014

Norse mythology (Iceland, 18th C)

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'Sæmundar og Snorra Edda' is a 1760 Icelandic manuscript by Ólafur Brynjúlfsson.  

There are two major sources that chronicle the legends of Norse mythology:

The 'Poetic Edda' is a collection of alliterative poems (Edda) from the 13th century Icelandic Codex Regius. The poems are thought to date from the 10th century.

The 'Younger Edda' which includes a narrative of Norse mythology and a manual for understanding the nuances of the alliterative poetics, was written by the Icelandic historian and parliamentarian, Snorri Sturluson an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was elected twice as a lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He was the author of the Prose Edda or Younger Edda, which consists of Gylfaginning ("the fooling of Gylfi"), a narrative of Norse mythology, the Skáldskaparmál, a book of poetic language, and the Háttatal, a list of verse forms. He was also the author of the Heimskringla, a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history.