The Poetic Edda

Synopsis

The poetic edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the north during the late heathen and early christian times. Collected by an unidentified icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, the poetic edda was rediscovered in iceland in the seventeenth century by danish scholars.