Edda

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For Edda 'great-grandmother' as the ancestress of serfs see Ríg.

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The Edda are collections of poetically narrated folk-tales relating to Norse Mythology or Norse heroes.

These are fragmentary parts of a (presumably) much larger scaldic tradition of oral narration which has been written down by scholars prior to the tales being lost absolutely.

There are a number of theories concerning the origins of the word edda. One theory holds that it is identical to the word that seems to mean "great-grandmother". (See Ríg.) Another theory holds that edda means "poetics". A third is that it means "the book of Oddi", Oddi being the place where Snorri Sturluson was educated.

There are two Eddas:

• The Poetic Edda, also known as Sæmundar Edda or incorrectly as the Elder Edda. It is the newer of the two.
• The Younger Edda or the Prose Edda. It is the older of the two.

Versions online

• THE ELDER EDDAS AND THE YOUNGER EDDAS (http://fax.libs.uga.edu/PT7234xE211/), Eng. trans. by I. A. Blackwell, 1906

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