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Poetic Edda

(also Saemund’s Edda, Elder Edda, or simply Edda), a collection of ancient Icelandic lays. The Poetic Edda survives in a 13th-century manuscript; its compiler is unknown. The lays long existed only in oral form, and the date of their composition remains in dispute. Several have been preserved in other ancient manuscripts.

Some of the lays are cast in the form of prophecies, apothegms, or theatrical presentations based on mythology; others are simple narratives. The mythological lays, of which Völuspa (The Seeress’ Prophecy) is the most important, are the only source of their kind on pagan mythology. Many of the heroic lays derive from south Germanic folk legends. Although the lays show the influence of different periods, their ideology and style indicate that the Poetic Edda antedates the ancient Germanic epics.

PUBLICATIONS

Edda, die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. Edited by G. Neckel. Fourth edition edited by H. Kuhn. Heidelberg, 1962.
Eddadigte ungivet af Jón Helgason, vols. 1–3. Copenhagen, 1952–64.
In Russian translation:
Starshaia Edda: Drevneislandskie pesni o bogakh i geroiakh. Afterword by M. I. Steblin-Kamenskii. Moscow-Leningrad, 1963. (Contains bibliography.)

REFERENCES

Khoisler, A. Germanskii geroicheskii epos i skazanie o Nibelungakh. Moscow, 1960.
Meletinskii, E. M. “Edda” i rannie formy eposa. Moscow, 1968.

M. I. STEBLIN-KAMENSKII

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of Wisconsin- Madison) analyzes 10 poems from the 13th-century Icelandic manuscript The Poetic Edda in terms of the oral formulaic theory, a system for examining how texts relate to their assumed oral precedents.

Analyzing ten poems from the poetic Edda; oral formula and mythic ... by Reference & Research Book News

That thee knaves NEG outwit 'That thieves should not outwit you' As discussed by Eythorsson (2002), a fourth stage in the negation cycle already appears in some cases in the Poetic Edda, and later became the norm in Old Icelandic.

Contact with Scandinavian and late Middle English negative concord by Ingham, Richard / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies

Chronology as to (Elder) poetic Edda and (Younger) prose Edda is controversial; for details concerning thc written tradition cf.

Celtic influence on old English rhetoric - a case study of the ... by Kuhlwein, Wolfgang / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies