Poetic Edda
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The Poetic Edda is the modern name for an untitled collection of Old Norse anonymous narrative poems in alliterative verse. It is distinct from the closely related Prose Edda, although both works are
The title page of Olive Bray's English translation of Codex Regius entitled Poetic Edda depicting the tree Yggdrasil and a number of its inhabitants (1908) by W. G. Collingwood
The cover of Lee M. Hollander's Poetic Edda
Völuspá
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Völuspá is the best known poem of the Poetic Edda. It dates back to the tenth century and tells the story from Norse Mythology of the creation of the world, its coming end, and its subsequent rebirth
Poetic Edda
…ancient use of vend'. In some cases, old poems may have been interpolated with younger verses or merged with other poems. For example, stanzas 9–16 of Völuspá, the "Dvergatal" or "Roster of Dwarfs", is considered by some scholars to be an interpolation. The problem of dating the poems is linked with the problem…
"Odin and the Völva" (1895) by Lorenz Frølich
The new world that rises after Ragnarök (depiction by Emil Doepler)