CHAPTER VI
Poetry and the Edda
Explore the language of the Edda through poets' ways of describing things and shaping their verses.
CHAPTER VI
Explore the language of the Edda through poets' ways of describing things and shaping their verses.
What is discussed at the feast lit by swords?
6-2
How can you describe a god without using their name?
6-3
How can a giant’s body describe the sky and sea?
6-4
What other names do the sun and seasons have?
6-5
How can a tree’s name stand for a person?
6-6
Why is gold called fire or tears?
6-7
How can weather describe a battle?
6-8
Who is “the king of heaven”?
6-9
What kinds of names can poets use?
6-10
What kinds of names do these poems collect?
6-11
Who gave the royal families their names?
6-12
What rules shape the sounds of a poem?
6-13
How did the dead father see the sun?
6-14
Can different gods appear in accounts of the same event?