Eddic

Based on various elements of Eddic poetics, I concluded that “ein ask” an ash is actually best translated as “a man.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Considering a Candidate’s Religion: 2009

In a lecture on Eddic poetry given at Oxford and here reprinted, Tolkien said that the poems had attracted "connoisseurs of new literary sensations" and the main aspect of that sensation was "an almost demonic energy and force".

Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Aspects of Fate in Old Norse Literature based on various sagas and Eddic works, and with comparisons to Greek, Irish, and Indian models.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Considering a Candidate’s Religion: 2009

Now I have an image of myself as a Eddic rapper think embroidered tunic and a lot of gold chains, but with Icelandic designs on them . . .

Ben's Fault Theodora Goss 2008

I rather think the last one is better if not looked at as a riddle, but more as autoelegy, something akin to rapper's or Eddic heroes' braggadocio...

Ben's Fault Theodora Goss 2008

I was surprised to walk into the reception and immediately run into Joe Harris, whose course on Eddic Poetry at Harvard was an important formative experience for me especially being then still an employee and not a "real" student; plus he's a great guy, creative and thoughtful.

Forging Folklore K. A. Laity 2007

In _Siegfried_ the amusing riddle scene, a reminiscence of the Eddic _Alvísmál_, seems intended to relate events which have gone before.

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

On the Eddic version and on Saxo's depend the theories of Golther, Detter, Niedner and other German scholars on the one hand, and Dr. Frazer on the other.

The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday

A very characteristic touch survives in Gregory of Tours (died 594), when the Frank Chlodvig tells his Christian wife that the Christian God "cannot be proved to be of the race of the Gods," an idea entirely in keeping with the Eddic hierarchy.

The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday

Eddic lays, upon which the story of the _Ring_ is founded, the child of the unnatural union is not Sigurd, not the golden hero "whom every child loved," but the savage outlaw Sinfjötli, half wolf, half robber, one of the most terrible creations of mythology.

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight