Poetic Edda

Codex Regius

• In Codex Regius

  …designated by scholars as the Poetic Edda, or Elder Edda (see Edda). It is the oldest such collection, the best-known of all Icelandic books, and an Icelandic national treasure.

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comparison with skaldic poetry

contribution by Bugge

• In Sophus Bugge

  …outstanding critical editions of the Poetic Edda, the 13th-century Icelandic collection of heroic and mythological poetry. His edition of Old Norse folk songs appeared in 1858.

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division of Edda

• In Edda: The Poetic Edda.

  The Poetic Edda is a later manuscript dating from the second half of the 13th century, but containing older materials (hence its alternative title, the Elder Edda). It is a collection of mythological and heroic poems of unknown authorship, composed over a long…

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Icelandic literature

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  In Icelandic literature: The classical period

  …designated by scholars as the Poetic Edda, or Elder Edda (see Edda). The poetry is sometimes called Eddaic and falls into two sections: heroic lays, which, broadly speaking, deal with the world of mortals; and mythological lays, which deal with the world of the gods.

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record of Germanic religion

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  In Germanic religion and mythology: Scandinavian literary sources

  …called the Elder Edda, or Poetic Edda, written in Iceland circa 1270 and containing material centuries older. The meaning of the name Edda is disputed; it was not originally applied to this book but to another mentioned below.

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