#codex regius

[ajtheheathen]

Heilsa!

Book I am reading early this morning is, The Poetic Edda by Snorri Sturluson, translated by Carolyne Larrington. I've read other translations as well; Jackson Crawford and also Lee Hollander, which aren't bad in any way, but so far I'm really enjoying Larrington's version. I recommend 💯 this read to all my fellow heathens because this version is very easy to follow, has both Old Norse and English translations.

“godt nytt år!” (Happy New Year)

[raffaellopalandri]

Huginn and Muninn in the Grímnismál

Huginn and Muninn in the Grímnismál

Huginn ok Muninnfljúga hverjan dagJörmungrund yfir;óumk ek of Huginat hann aftr né komit,þó sjámk meir um Munin.[Grímnismál] Huginn and Muninn? Photo taken from internet Huginn and Muninnfly each dayover the spacious earth.I fear for Huginn,that he come not back,yet more anxious am I for Muninn[Grímnismál] Grímnismál is one of the mythological poems of the Poetic Edda. It is preserved in the…

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[theyoungwaldschrat]

So I got a bit annoyed of the inconsistent Old Norse transcriptions of Eddic poems and I decided to study the font and orthography of the Codex Regius so I can read it myself and... I kinda fell in love with it and before I knew it I had copied the first page. It’s been some time since I’ve done calligraphy and I’m very unsteady with this new font but I think I’ll get back into penmanship now. 

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

The Most Interesting God in the World.

[fuckyeahnorsemythology]

I was just wondering, what in the poetic edda is from Iceland and what is from Scandinavia? What I mean is: did Snorre or anyone else add to the mythos or did they only write down verbal legends from Scandinavia?

Hello anon and thank you for the question.

The short answer is that no one knows for sure and there is no conclusive evidence regarding where individual parts were composed for the Poetic Edda. It is written by multiple anonymous sources from oral traditions passed down by word of mouth. Anything composed before 870 is assumed to be most likely to have come from Scandinavia, while most young poems are likely Icelandic (at least in terms of authorship, if not content).

However, Snorri was author (or at the least compiler) of Prose Edda (NOT Poetic Edda) in around 1220 in Iceland. What he added into the content is for anyone to guess and many believe that parts were heavily influenced by Christianity (which had been the religion for hundreds of years by that point in time).

So the only thing we know for sure is that we do not know for sure.

- @hedendom

[lykaios666]

Ár skal rísa

sá er annars vill

fé eða fjör hafa

sjaldan liggjandi úlfr

lær um getr

né sofandi maðr sigr

Get up early and fight

For what you want

Before others take it

A lazy wolf

Gets no meat

The sleeping get no victory

HÁVAMÁL – verse 58

[bimbogollum]

Guðrúnarhvöt / The Whetting of Guðrún

It was the cruellest of all my injuries when the white-blonde hair of Svanhildr they trampled in mud under horses’ hooves [...]. Here sits neither daughter-in-law nor daughter who might give treasure to Guðrún

[angelkarafilli]

The Codex Regius is made up of 45 vellum leaves, thought to have been written in the 1270s.Is an Icelandic codex in which many Old Norse poems are preserved and is now kept in the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavik.