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Most that remains from these poet-minstrels is contained in the great national collections called Eddas, of which the oldest received their present form early in the eleventh century.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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The essential truth in the Avesta and the Eddas is the same.
Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849
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These mythological records are contained in two collections called the Eddas, of which the oldest is in poetry and dates back to the year 1056, the more modern or prose Edda being of the date of 1640.
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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These mythological records are contained in two collections called the Eddas, of which the oldest is in poetry and dates back to the year 1056, the more modern or prose Edda being of the date of 1640.
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas by Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton (1908).
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Tolkien drew from linguistics and the greater and lesser Eddas, and, probably through his Inking connections with C.S. Lewis, slightly from Wagner.
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Tolkien drew from linguistics and the greater and lesser Eddas, and, probably through his Inking connections with C.S. Lewis, slightly from Wagner.
April « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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But as for books, I relied on the Eddas for NORSE CODE, both the Younger Edda (or Prose Edda) by the 13th Century Icelandic poet, Snorri Sturluson, and the Elder Edda (or Poetic Edda).
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The Norse Eddas tell of the Goddess Sol, Sul, Sulis driving the chariot of the sun.
Donna Henes: Celebrating the Solstice: Fiery Fetes of Summer 2010
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The Norse Eddas, a collection of heroic and mythological poems in Old Norse, tell of the Ragnarök, the Twilight of the Gods, made famous by Wagner's operatic Ring Cycle.
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