![]() In general, the word Edda means "great-parent", or ancestor and the word " kredda" means " belief", as such the Prose Edda and the Poetic Eddatogether constitute the source book for all Norse ancient beliefs or sacred knowledge.įrom this it has been accepted that Snorri compiled some parts of the work and also contributed to it. It combines symbolism, descriptions of the creation and its order, descriptions of the Intelligences and their hierarchy it is smaller, but every bit as rich as the Bible. The stories had a great influence upon later story tellers, poets, musicians and painters, inspiring J R R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Richard Wagner's Ring cycle, poets Auden and Longfellow, and many others.īut the Edda as a whole is much more than a set of legends, it is the Norse'Bible'. ![]() The Edda also tells heroic stories about legendary warriors and their kin, stories which incorporate shards of ancient memory. Woven throughout is the gods' tragic realisation that the future holds one final cataclysmic battle, Ragnarok when the world will be destroyed. In straightforward prose interspersed with ancient verse, the Edda recounts the Norse creation epic and the subsequent struggles of the gods, giants, dwarves and elves in that universe. The Prose Edda is Scandinavia's best known work of literature and the most extensive source for Norse mythology. Jesse Byock - from the Introduction to a translation of the Prose Edda ![]()
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