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Sacred Legal Places in Eddic Poetry: Reflected in Real Life?
Journal of the North Atlantic, 2013Abstract Eddic poetry constitutes an important gateway into the pre-Christian legal universe of Scandinavia. This paper presents a broader, deeper discusson of how the thing functions in the eddic poems and the legal language and motifs that are used around this concept.
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The Criteria for Dating the Eddic Poems
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1927In discussing the date of the Eddie poems one must carefully distinguish three factors: the date of their written compilation or recording, the date of their actual composition by the poet, and the age of the mythological, legendary and other material which they contain. In speaking of the age of the Eddie poems it is clear that we are referring to the
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Elegy in Eddic Poetry: Its Origin and Context
2013Hamðismal reports Hamðir’s last words and describes his death in a struggle against superior forces in these words:“Vel hofom við vegit, stondom a val Gotna, ofan, eggmoðom, sem ernir a qvisti; goðs hofom tirar fengið, þott scylim nu eða i gaer deyia, qveld lifi r maðr ecci eptir qvið norna.”
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Eddic poetry and the imagery of stone monuments
2016Many myths and legends preserved in eddic poetry had likely circulated in various artistic media long before they were shaped into the poetic forms that have come down to us in the Codex Regius collection of eddic poems (GKS 2365 4°; c. 1270) and other manuscripts.
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