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Edda Sæmundar

LC control no.n 50080078
Descriptive conventionsrda
Uniform title headingEdda Sæmundar
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Variant(s)Ældre Edda
Poetic Edda
Ältere Edda
Elder Edda
Poetiska Eddan
Sæmundar Edda
Edda (Poetic Edda)
Found inA history of Icelandic literature, 1957, via HathiTrust: p. 14 (Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson acquired Codex regius in 1643; called it Edda Sæmundi multiscii, i.e., the Edda of Sæmund the Learned; attributed to Sæmundr inn fróði; name Sæmundar Edda has since then been used, though scholars have also used the descriptive terms, The Elder Edda or The Poetic Edda)
Britannica Academic, viewed 24 Feb. 2021 (Poetic Edda; manuscript dating from the second half of the 13th century, but containing older materials [than Prose Edda] (hence its alternative title, the Elder Edda); collection of mythological and heroic poems of unknown authorship, composed over a long period (A.D. 800-1100))
Wikipedia, 24 Feb. 2021 (Poetic Edda; modern scholars reject attribution to Sæmundr the Learned, but the name Sæmundar Edda is still sometimes associated with both the Codex Regius and versions of Poetic Edda using it as a source)
Icelandic Wikipedia, 24 Feb. 2021 (Sæmundaredda)