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The Poetic Edda on Norway

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attestation: The passage describes the location Norway.

"In general the mythological poems are strongly heathen in character, and as Christianity became generally accepted throughout Norway and Iceland early in the eleventh century, it is altogether likely that most of the poems dealing with the Norse gods antedate the year 1000."
attestation: The passage describes the location Norway.

"The claims of Norway have been extensively advanced, but the great literary activity of Iceland after the settlement of the island by Norwegian emigrants late in the ninth century makes the theory of an Icelandic source for most of the poems plausible."

attestation: The passage describes violence or death involving Norway.

"Here grew up an active civilization, fostered by absolute independence and by remoteness from the wars which wracked Norway, yet kept from degenerating into provincialism by the roving life of the people, which brought them constantly in contact with the culture of the South."
attestation: The passage provides information about Norway.

"Later Norway too fell under alien rule, a Swede ascending the Norwegian throne in 1320."

attestation: The passage describes the location Norway.

"Owing to the character of the Norse settlements in Iceland, Ireland, and the western islands generally, search for a specific king leads back to either Norway or Denmark; despite the arguments advanced by Edzardi, Vigfusson, Powell, and others, it seems most improbable that such a poem should have been produced elsewhere than on the Continent, the region where Scandinavian royalty most flourished."

attestation: The passage describes violence or death involving Norway.

"From Denmark the story appears to have spread northward into Norway and westward into the Norse settlements among the islands."