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- proper noun A
collection ofOld Norse poems ,songs , and someprose , containing stories about the Norse gods and legendary heroes.
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Examples
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His wisdom was probably connected with his sleepless watching over all the worlds. this is taken from Poetic Edda a Old Norse poems "The Lay of Thrym"
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With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. eBooks@Adelaide
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With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. eBooks@Adelaide
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When the poems on which his paraphrase is founded were discovered, Icelandic scholars by a misunderstanding applied the name to them also; and as they attributed the collection quite arbitrarily to the historian Saemund (1056-1133), it was long known as Saemundar Edda, a name now generally discarded in favour of the less misleading titles of Elder or Poetic Edda.
The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday
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_ (_Hauksbók_, ed. Finnur Jónsson, 1892-1896) _Hávamál_ in 'Poetic Edda,' a gnomic miscellany, 77
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Volupsa of the Poetic Edda, the younger one in the Gylfaginning of the Prose Edda.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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[99] _The Elder or Poetic Edda_, Olive Bray, part i, p. 53.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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In the Poetic Edda poem Rígþula another origin is related of how the runic alphabet became known to man.
Planet Perl 2009
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In the Poetic Edda poem Rígþula another origin is related of how the runic alphabet became known to man.
Planet Perl 2009
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Other examples which aid in a good understanding of what the rune system was and how the magical archetypes were fused both in the minds of the Vitki (the name of a runic magician {Thorrson1}) and in the shapes of the runic staves are a wealth of writings from those who used the system (the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda) and from some of the Roman historians Tacitus, Virgil and others.
The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Science 2008
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