Iceland provides the fullest surviving record | HISTORY OF LITERATURE

Eddas and Sagas

Iceland provides the fullest surviving record of Germanic mythology, legend and history. The earliest examples are found in a manuscript written in the 13th century, known as the Elder Edda (or sometimes Poetic...

Iceland provides the fullest surviving record | HISTORY OF THE GERMANIC PEOPLES

Eddas and Sagas

Iceland provides the fullest surviving record of Germanic mythology, legend and history. The earliest examples are found in a manuscript written in the 13th century, known as the Elder Edda (or sometimes Poetic...

As with the Homeric poems, the | HISTORY OF LITERATURE

Northern epic and saga

As with the Homeric poems, the Germanic and Norse epics combine mythology with folk memory of real events; and, like their predecessors, they are sung and recited in many different forms and places before eventually bein...

As with the Homeric poems, the | HISTORY OF THE GERMANIC PEOPLES

Northern epic and saga

As with the Homeric poems, the Germanic and Norse epics combine mythology with folk memory of real events; and, like their predecessors, they are sung and recited in many different forms and places before eventually bein...

The Younger Edda (also known as | NORSE MYTHOLOGY

Eddas and Sagas

The Younger Edda (also known as the Prose Edda) is written much later, in the early 13th century, by a single author - the Icelandic chieftain Snorri Sturluson. Composed as an aid to the appreciation of Ice...

The Younger Edda (also known as | HISTORY OF LITERATURE

Eddas and Sagas

The Younger Edda (also known as the Prose Edda) is written much later, in the early 13th century, by a single author - the Icelandic chieftain Snorri Sturluson. Composed as an aid to the appreciation of Ice...

The Younger Edda (also known as | HISTORY OF THE GERMANIC PEOPLES

Eddas and Sagas

The Younger Edda (also known as the Prose Edda) is written much later, in the early 13th century, by a single author - the Icelandic chieftain Snorri Sturluson. Composed as an aid to the appreciation of Ice...

Several mythologies, including one developed in | CREATION STORIES

Eggs and emptiness

Several mythologies, including one developed in China, begin with the splitting in two of a cosmic egg. In the Chinese version this is followed by the growth of a giant whose limbs eventually form the observable world. A...