- Odin (/ˈoʊdɪn/; from Old Norse: Óðinn) is a
widely revered god
within two main traditions,
Norse mythology and
Germanic paganism. Most
surviving information...
- of the
Nibelung poems from the Edda (see Völsunga saga),
composed in the
Eddaic fornyrðislag metre. Old
Norse poetry Norse mythology John
Lindow (2002)...
-
mentioned in
three poems from the
Poetic Edda and the Gyl****inning, the
Eddaic text
recording Norse cosmogony. Ginnunga- is
usually interpreted as deriving...
- [citation needed] The
history of
Norwegian literature starts with the
pagan Eddaic poems and
skaldic verse of the
ninth and
tenth centuries, with
poets such...
-
somewhat arbitrarily,
split into two types:
Eddaic poetry (also
known as
Eddic poetry) and
Skaldic poetry.
Eddaic poetry refers to
poems on
themes of mythology...
- Dagr (Old
Norse 'day') is the
divine personification of the day in
Norse mythology. He
appears in the
Poetic Edda,
compiled in the 13th
century from earlier...
- from Ítreksjóð, 'offspring of Ítrekr', in a list of Odin's sons in the
Eddaic þulur. See Burrows,
Hannah (2014). "Wit and Wisdom: The
Worldview of the...
- (Old Norse: [ˈswipˌdɑɣz̠] "sudden day") is the hero of the two Old
Norse Eddaic poems Grógaldr and Fjölsvinnsmál,
which are
contained within the body of...
- Gullkársljóð ('the poem of Gullkár') is an Old
Icelandic Eddaic poem in the fornyrðislag metre.
Although in
Eddaic metre and
attested in post-medieval m****cripts...
- of
alliterative verse. It
falls into two main categories:
Eddaic and
Skaldic poetry.
Eddaic poetry was anonymous,
originally orally transmitted, and mostly...
