for a poet) but this has no foundation in old writers or tradition. bishop Brynjolf Sveinsson in the year 1643 discovered the old mythological poems, and, led by a fanciful and erroneous suggestion, he gave to that book the name of Sæmundar Edda, the Edda of Sæmund hence originate the modern terms the Old or Poetical and New or Prose Edda in foreign writers Eddic has been ever since used in the sense of plain and artless poetry, such as is contained in these poems, opposed to the artificial, which they call Scaldic (Skald being Icel. when the head is called the ‘sword of Heimdal,’ the sword the ‘fire or torch of Odin,’ etc. Eddic circumlocutions, Kötlu Draumr 85, e.g.
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poetry full of Eddic phrases Įddu-kenningar, f. hence compd words such asĮddu-borinn, part. In these and many other references, the poets speak of the art, skill, rules, or, if they are in that mood, the obscure puerilities and empty phrases of the Edda, the artificial phraseology as taught and expounded by Snorri and wherever the name occurs (previous to the year 1643) it only refers to Snorri’s book, and such is still the use of the word in Icel. 2 from the first half of the 17th century, Grett. (by Magnus Gamli, died 1591), Valdimars R., Ester R. Poets of the 16th century (before 1612), Rollants R. 5 -all these in vellum and the greater part of them belonging to the 15th century. 4, Rimur af Ill Verra og Vest, 4, 3, Jarlmanns R. The poets of the 15th century frequently mention the Edda in the introduction to their Rímur or Rhapsodies, a favourite kind of poetry of this and the following time, Reinalds R. (by Arni) 79 -all poems of the 14th century. poetry: reglur Edda * Eddu, the rules of Edda, Gd. As the Skáldskaparmál ( Ars Poëtica) forms the chief part of the Edda, teaching the old artificial poetical circumlocutions ( kenningar), poetical terms and diction, and the mythical tales on which they were founded, the Edda became a sort of handbook of poets, and therefore came gradually to mean the ancient artificial poetry as opposed to the modern plain poetry contained in hymns and sacred poems it, however, never applies to alliteration or other principles of Icel. 1241 (in a paper MS., but probably genuine). Snorri) samansetti Eddu, he put together the Edda, Ann. Arna-Magn.) sva segir í bók þeirri er Edda heitir, at sá maðr sem Ægir hét spurði Braga …, 532 (MS.
consisting of three parts, Gylfagynning, Skáldskaparmál, and Háttatal), Edda ii. the Ub., written about fifty or sixty years after Snorri’s death: Bók þessi heitir Edda, hann hefir saman setta Snorri Sturlusonr eptir þeim hætti sem hér er skipat (viz. The ancients only applied this name to the work of Snorri it is uncertain whether he himself called it so it occurs for the first time in the inscription to one of the MSS. the name of the book Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson, and containing old mythological lore and the old artificial rules for verse making.
4 móðir ( mother) heitir ok amma ( grandmother), þriðja edda ( the third is edda), Edda 108: this sense is obsolete. (H.) 14.Įðal-, noble, in compds, borrowed from Germ.
A Á B D E F G H I Í J K L M N O Ó P R S T U Ú V Y Ý Þ Æ ÖĮb, eð, ed, ef, eg, ei, ek, él, em, en, ep, er, es, et, ex, ey EĮbreskr, adj.
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