Laufás-Edda

Laufás-Edda

The Laufás-Edda was written in the period 1608-9 by the priest Magnús Ólafsson at Laufás on the request of Arngrímur Jónsson.

The purpose was to make a systematic and encyclopedic version of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. The myths in "Gylfaginning" are presented as a series of examples and the kennings of "Skáldskaparmál" are organized alphabetically. The last part, "Háttatal" was not included.

The result was a distorted version of Snorri's work, but a version which became a convenient and popular work of reference for poets and antiquarians.

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* [http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~alvismal/9muse.pdf "The Norse Muse Report from an International Research Project" by Margaret Clunies Ross and Lars Lönnroth]


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