"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 Odin winning back the mead of poetic inspiration and Thor fishing for the Midgard serpent" --
Genres
- Norse Mythology
- Glossaries, vocabularies
- Scalds and scaldic poetry
- Old Norse poetry
- Old Norse language
- Indexes
- Mythology, Norse
- Skáldskaparmál
- Eddas
- Poetry (poetic works by one author)
- Scalds and scladic poetry
- Pt7313.e5 b7 2005
- 839.61
- Short stories, old norse
- Old norse prose
- Pt7312.e5 f38 1995
- 839.68
- Poetry, history and criticism
- Old Norse Short stories
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