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Texts — Norse and Germanic
The texts filed under Norse and Germanic.
Written once,
read ever since.
Texts and their dates
Texts in Norse and Germanic
Scandinavia, the North Sea and the Germanic-speaking world, roughly 500 BCE to 1200 CE.
36 texts
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Ordered by how many Wikipedias have an article on each — a measure of how widely a subject is written about, not of its importance to any tradition.
- Poetic Edda Collection of Old Norse poems
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Prose Edda 13th-century Norse work of literature written in Iceland -
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Völuspá Poem from the Poetic Edda -
Hávamál Poem in the Poetic Edda -
Grímnismál Poem from the Poetic Edda -
Story Lokasenna Old Norse poem from the Poetic Edda -
Vafþrúðnismál Eddic poem -
Ynglinga saga Literary work -
Skáldskaparmál Third part of the Prose Edda -
Þrymskviða Poem -
Hyndluljóð Old Norse poem often considered part of the Poetic Edda - Skírnismál Eddic poem
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Alvíssmál Poem from the Poetic Edda -
Hárbarðsljóð Poem of the Poetic Edda - Hymiskviða OId Norse poem in the Poetic Edda
- Völundarkviða Eddic poem
- Ynglingatal Literary work
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Story Rígsþula Poem from the Poetic Edda - Story Grottasöngr Old Norse poem
- Hákonarmál Old Norse skaldic poem – 'The Song of Hákon'
- Sigrdrífumál Poem
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Svipdagsmál Old Norse poem - Fáfnismál Eddic poem
- Oddrúnargrátr Poem
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Atlakviða Poem in the Poetic Edda - Atlamál Poem
- Reginsmál Eddic poem
- Hamðismál Poem in the Poetic Edda
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Helreið Brynhildar Poem - Brot af Sigurðarkviðu Fragmentary eddic poem
- Grípisspá Eddic poem
- Guðrúnarhvöt Eddic poem
- Guðrúnarkviða II Probably the oldest poem of the Sigurd cycle
- Sigurðarkviða hin skamma Poem
- Dráp Niflunga Short prose section in the Poetic Edda
- Guðrúnarkviða III Poem
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Norse and Germanic
The Æsir and Vanir as the Eddas tell them, and what the archaeology says instead.