Described in the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, Skadi is depicted as a fierce giantess whose skill in hunting and skiing made her an especially formidable figure. Her mythology is deeply intertwined ...

What is the context of the literature you study? The stuff that I'm looking at is roughly 1,000 years old. The poems of The Poetic Edda, about the Norse gods and heroes, were probably composed around ...

At least it is in Norse mythology. Told of primarily in the 13th century Old Norse texts, the Poetic Edda and Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda, Ragnarok is the equivalent of armageddon in Norse ...

This course surveys the primary collection of Old Norse poetry about the pre-Christian Scandinavian gods, the Poetic Edda. You will also work with the main collections of stories about the Old Norse ...

We only have two major written sources: the collection of poems written down around 1270 in Iceland known as The Poetic Edda, and The Prose Edda, composed by the Icelander Snorri Sturluson in the ...