Text Story Norse and Germanic
Rígsþula
Poem from the Poetic Edda
- Part of Poetic Edda
- Also called The Lay of Righ, The Lay of Ríg
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Time within the story
Overview
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Cast
Who is in it
Gods and people whose own records place them in this story.
What this means
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- RígAppears in it
Norse deity
Has references
Told in
The text that tells it
The one text on record, with its own date on the source clock.
What this means
A story is a group of accounts. Each carries its own source, its own cast and its own relationships, and where two disagree both stand. The texts above are works whose records say the story appears in them or is part of them; each date is the text’s own, on the source clock, never the date of the story. Account-level readings — a locator such as “Hesiod, Theogony 886–900”, with that account’s own cast and relationships — are not held yet: 0. The structured data this site imports records stories as subjects and has no equivalent of a narrative account. When accounts are added, reading one will change only the relationships that account asserts. Nothing will be deleted to make them agree.
Sources
Sources and evidence
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- Pictures
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Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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