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Edda

Snorri Sturluson
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17 editions · 3 languages
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"Over a period of twenty years Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose Edda as a textbook for young poets who wished to praise kings. His work surveys the content, style and metres of traditional Viking poetry and includes a lengthy poem of Snorrie's own, praising the king of Norway. Ironically, Snorri was killed in his own cellar in Iceland in 1241 on the instigation of the king of Norway, as a result of political intrigue. The Edda contains the most extensive account of Norse myths and legends that has survived from the Middle Ages as well as the popular stories of…

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17 editions · 3 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2006
    The Prose Edda
    Dover Publications · 288 pages · 9780486451510
  • Paperback · English · 2002
    The Prose Edda
    University of California Press · 131 pages · 9780520234772
  • Hardcover · English · 2002
    Guorun · 320 pages · 9789979856580
  • Paperback · English · 1964
    The Prose Edda
    University of California Press · 131 pages · 9780520012325
  • Other · English · 2005
    The prose Edda
    Penguin · 180 pages · 9780140447552
  • Other · English · 1998
    Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London · 9780903521376
Norse MythologyGlossaries, vocabulariesScalds and scaldic poetryOld Norse poetryOld Norse languageIndexesMythology, NorseSkáldskaparmál