Edda

Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX)

• attestation: He fights by Woden's side and Balder's against Hother, by whose magic wand his club (hammer) was lopped off part of its shaft, a wholly different and, a much later version than the one Snorre gives... (The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Supernatural Beings.)

  "He fights by Woden's side and Balder's against Hother, by whose magic wand his club (hammer) was lopped off part of its shaft, a wholly different and, a much later version than the one Snorre gives in the prose Edda."

• attestation: The Eddic funerals of Balder, Sigfred, and Brunhild, in the Long "Brunhild's Lay", Tregrof Gudrumar and the lost poem of Balder's death paraphrased in the prose Edda); the last message given to the... (The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Funeral Rites And Man'S Future State.)

  "The Eddic funerals of Balder, Sigfred, and Brunhild, in the Long "Brunhild's Lay", Tregrof Gudrumar and the lost poem of Balder's death paraphrased in the prose Edda); the last message given to the corpse on the pyre (Woden's last words to Balder are famous); the riding round the pyre; the eulogium; the piling of the barrow, which sometimes took whole days, as the size of many existing grass mounds assure us; the funeral feast, where an immense vat of ale or mead is drunk in honor of the dead; the epitaph, like an ogham, set up on a stone over the barrow."

• attestation: Edda: The "story of Orwandel" (the analogue of Orion the Hunter) must be gathered chiefly from the prose... (The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > "T.M.").)

  "The "story of Orwandel" (the analogue of Orion the Hunter) must be gathered chiefly from the prose Edda."

Poetic Edda

• attestation: Ai and Edda mean Great-Grandfather and Great-Grandmother; the name 'Edda' inspired Jakob Grimm's theory about the meaning of the whole collection (The > Volume I > Notes)

  "Ai and Edda: Great-Grandfather and Great-Grandmother; the latter name was responsible for Jakob Grimm's famous guess at the meaning of the word "Edda" as applied to the whole collection"