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The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology Free Encyclopedia FREE THE PROSE EDDA: NORSE MYTHOLOGY PDF Snorri Sturluson,Jesse L. Byock | 224 pages | 31 Jan 2006 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780140447552 | English | London, United Kingdom Sources - Norse Mythology for Smart People By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie PolicyPrivacy Policyand our Terms of Service. It only takes a minute to sign up. The Poetic Edda is the modern attribution for an unnamed collection of Old Norse poems. Several versions exist, all consisting primarily of text from the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript known as the Codex Regius. Together with the Poetic Edda, it comprises the major store of Scandinavian mythology. The work is often assumed to have been written, or at least compiled, by the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around the year If The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology are interested in a closer look, you may find English translations of both on sacred-texts. The "Poetic Edda" is used to refer to a group of poems dealing with the Norse Gods and heroes. There doesn't seem to be a single version, but all versions draw from the Codex Regius. Although the Codex was written in the 13th century, the material it The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology comprised of may be older, as Old Norse poetry dates as far back as the 8th century. The poems constitute what may be termed "Eddaic poetry" as opposed to the more complex " skaldic poetry ". The poems themselves are unattributed and the author Codex is unknown. The Prose The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology, by contrast, is attributed to Snorri Sturluson, although he may have simply compiled it, as opposed to having been the author. The stories contained in the Prose Edda are more detailed and reflect the more sophisticated narrative techniques of later generations. The Icelandic Sagas, in particular, can be viewed as a precursor to the modern novel. Although the Prose Edda certainly draws from the poems of the Poetic Edda, it also includes many embellishments. From a personal standpoint, I feel that the Poetic Edda is similar to Classical work such as the Homeric Hymns which are more formal and have a religious context. For the Norse Mythology experts, please feel free to make corrections if the are any inaccuracies in this answer! My intent is to provide helpful The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology beyond the bare facts. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Home Questions Tags Users Unanswered. What is the difference between the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda? Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 9 months ago. Active 4 years ago. Viewed 17k times. What is the The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology between the two? I feel like this shows a lack of research effort. Active Oldest Votes. Wikipedia answers this sufficiently: Poetic Edda The Poetic Edda is the modern attribution for an unnamed collection of Old Norse poems. DukeZhou DukeZhou Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Related 5. Hot Network Questions. Question feed. Prose Edda - Wikipedia Snorri SturlusonbornHvammur, Iceland—died Sept. From him Snorri acquired both a deep knowledge of Icelandic tradition and The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology European breadth of outlook. In Snorri married an heiress and began to acquire lands and power. In he settled at Reykjaholt, where most of his works were written between and Snorri became involved in The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology while visiting the Norwegians. The Prose Edda is a handbook on poetics. In this work Snorri arranges and recounts the legends of Norse mythology in an entertaining way. He then explains the ornate diction of the ancient skaldic poets and explains the great variety of poetic metres used in skaldic and Eddic verse. Snorri also wrote a biography of St. A three-volume English translation by Samuel Laing has been frequently reprinted. Snorri based the Heims kringla on earlier histories, but he gathered much fresh material of his own. He particularly valued poems transmitted orally from the time of the original historical events they described, and he selected those poetic traditions that seemed to be both authoritative and reflective of contemporary politics and human nature. His genius lay in his power to present all that he perceived critically as a historian with the immediacy of drama. See also Edda ; Heimskringla. Snorri Sturluson Article Additional Info. Print Cite. Facebook Twitter. Give Feedback External Websites. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article requires login. External Websites. World History - Biography of Snorri Sturluson. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. The The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree Britannica Quiz. Get exclusive access to content from our First Edition with your subscription. Subscribe today. Learn More in these related Britannica articles: Germanic religion and mythology: Scandinavian literary sources. Snorri acquired great wealth and received the best education available. He became a powerful man in Icelandic politics, and political intrigue led to his assassination in Snorri Sturluson wrote many kinds of works and played an important role in political wrangles in his time. Among works ascribed to him are the Snorra Edda c. Snorri, a leading The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology Icelandic poet, used as sources all the court poetry from the 9th century onward that was available to him. He also used many…. History at your fingertips. Sign up here to see what happened On This Dayevery day in your inbox! Email address. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology right to your inbox. Snorri Sturluson | Icelandic writer | Britannica The work is often assumed to have been to some extent written, or at least compiled, by the Icelandic scholar, lawspeakerand historian Snorri Sturluson c. It is considered the fullest and most detailed source for modern knowledge of Norse mythologythe body of myths of the North Germanic peoplesand draws from a wide variety of sources, including versions of poems that survive into today in a collection known as the Poetic Edda. Dating from c. The Prose Edda appears to have functioned similarly to a contemporary textbook, with the goal of assisting Icelandic poets and readers in understanding the subtleties of alliterative verseand to grasp the meaning behind the many kennings used in skaldic poetry. Originally known to scholars simply as Eddathe Prose Edda gained its contemporary name in order to differentiate it from the Poetic Edda. Early scholars of the Prose Edda suspected that there once existed a collection of entire poems, a theory confirmed with the rediscovery of manuscripts of the Poetic Edda. The etymology of "Edda" remains uncertain; there are many hypotheses about its meaning and developing, yet little agreement. Some argue that the word derives from the name of Oddia town in the south of Iceland where Snorri was raised. Edda could therefore mean "book of Oddi. Anthony Faulkes in his English translation of the Prose Edda comments that this is "unlikely, both in terms of linguistics and history " [2] since Snorri was no longer living at Oddi when he composed his work. A final hypothesis is derived from the Latin edomeaning "I write". It relies on the fact that the word "kredda" meaning "belief" is certified and comes from the Latin "credo"meaning 'I believe'. Edda in this case could be translated as "Poetic Art". This is the meaning that the word was then given in the medieval period. Seven manuscripts of the Prose Edda have survived into the present day: Six copies from the medieval period and another dating to the s. No one manuscript is complete, and each has variations. Although some scholars have doubted whether a sound stemma of the manuscripts can be created, due to the possibility of scribes drawing The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology multiple exemplars or from memory, recent work has found that the main sources of each manuscript can be fairly readily ascertained. The text is often assumed to have been written or at least compiled to some extent by Snorri Sturluson. This identification is largely based on the following paragraph from a portion of Codex Upsaliensis, an early 14th-century manuscript containing the Edda :. Whatever the case, the mention of Snorri in the manuscripts has been influential in a common acceptance of Snorri as the author or at least one of the authors of the Edda. The Prologue is the first section of The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology books of the Prose Eddaconsisting of an euhemerized Christian account of the origins of Norse mythology : the Nordic gods are described as human Trojan warriors who left Troy after the fall of that city an origin similar to the one chosen by Geoffrey The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology Monmouth in the 12th century to account for the ancestry of the British nation, and which parallels Virgil's Aeneid. According to the Prose Eddathese warriors settled in northern Europe, where they were accepted as divine kings because of their superior culture and technology. Remembrance ceremonies later conducted at their burial sites degenerated into heathen cults, turning them into gods. Gylfaginning deals with the creation and destruction of the world of the Nordic godsand many other aspects of Norse mythology. The section is written in prose interspersed with quotes from eddic poetry.
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