"Song Edda"

Japanese: 《歌謡エッダ》 - かようえっだ
"Song Edda"

…A collection of songs written in Old Norse from the 9th to the 13th century. There is another introductory book on poetics, the Edda, written by the 13th-century Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson. To distinguish between these two books, the former is called the Poetic Edda, the Song Edda, or the Sämund's Edda, and the latter is called the Neo Edda, the Prose Edda, or the Snorri's Edda. The Poetic Edda is a collection of ancient songs from Germanic mythology and heroic legends, consisting of 29 songs from an ancient manuscript discovered in Skálholt, Iceland in 1643, with some added from later periods. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the "Pop Edda" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…9世紀から13世紀にかけて古ノルド語で書かれた歌謡の集成。このほかにもうひとつ13世紀のアイスランドの学者スノッリ・ストゥルルソンの書いた詩学入門書《エッダ》があり,これら2書を区別するために,前者を《古エッダ》《歌謡エッダ》《セームンドのエッダ》などと呼び,後者を《新エッダ》《散文エッダ》《スノッリのエッダ》と称する。 《古エッダ》は,1643年アイスランドのスカウルホルトで発見された古写本の歌謡29編に,後世からの数編を加えたゲルマン神話,英雄伝説を内容とする古歌謡集である。…

※「《歌謡エッダ》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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