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The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

Biographies & Memoirs

SIGFUSSON, SAEMUND

STURLESON, SNORRE

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The Elder Eddas, and The Younger Eddas (Esprios Classics): with Saemund Sigfusson

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The Elder Edda of Saemund Sigfusson

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Thorpe, Benjamin

History & Criticism

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<p>Saemund Sigfusson lived in Iceland. He was credited with The Elder Eddas which is a collection of poems. The poems themselves date in all probability from the Tenth and Eleventh centuries, and are many of them only fragments of longer heroic chants now otherwise entirely lost. It is evident that they were collected from oral tradition; and the fact that the same story is occasionally repeated, in varied form, and that some of the poems prove that the present collection is only a gathering made early in the middle ages, long after the composition of the pieces, and in no critical spirit. Snorre Sturleson, was the writer of Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, which is an Icelandic manual of poetics which contains many stories from Norse mythology. Its purpose was to enable Icelandic poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, and to grasp the meaning behind the many kennings that were used in skaldic poetry. It consists of seven manuscripts, dating from around 1300 to around 1600, which have independent textual value.</p>

The Elder Eddas, and the Younger Eddas (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Dodo Press

The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

Icelandic poems of the 11th and 13th century

The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson: Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Echo Library

<p>Snorre Sturleson (1178-1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. He was twice elected 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 Skaldskaparmal, a book of poetic language, and the Hattatal, 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. For stylistic and methodological reasons, he is often taken to be the author of Egils Saga. As a historian and mythographer, he is remarkable for proposing the theory that mythological gods begin as human war leaders and kings whose funeral sites develop cults. As a chief and statesman Snorre behaved exactly the opposite of the resolute and often heroic characters of the sagas, to such a degree that his authorship of them is sometimes questioned. His name is also spelt Snorri Sturlusson/Sturlson/Sturlason.</p>

Heimskringla Or, the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway

Dodo Pr

The Younger Edda

I found information on a Saemund Sigfusson while reading family documents. I then learned that Odinist Masons in France had seen him as instrumental in the building of the first Gothic cathedral in Chartres. When it comes to the Eddas, what was Saemund Sigfusson's role? amp; Who knows for sure? amp; Be that as it may be, the texts stand by themselves because they are a cultural landmark. Moreover, is it not interesting to see what the views of some specialists were in 1906? amp; So, because there are readers who prefer a hard copy, here is the English translation again, a hundred years after its first publication, but this time with a new feature: an extensive index which should be useful to about anyone.

THE ELDER EDDAS AND THE YOUNGER EDDAS

Contemporary

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The "Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson" also known as the "Prose Edda" is believed to have been put together by the Icelandic poet, politician, and historian Snorri Sturluson in the 14th Century and consists of a Christian's interpretation of the origins of Nordic mythology. The Prose Edda is related to the Poetic Edda in that the Prose Edda cites various poems collected in the Poetic Edda as sources. The two Eddas are the most important extant sources on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, and from the early 19th century onwards have had a powerful influence on later Scandinavian literatures. Poets who have acknowledged their debt to the Poetic Edda include Vilhelm Ekelund, August Strindberg, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound and Karin Boye.

The Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

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