Definition of how I have self-defined
Within these lines?
I think this covers nearly all
written work. I think -
Edda- n.
The name given to two distinct Icelandic books: a. By Icelandic poets of 15th c. applied to a miscellaneous handbook to Icel. poetry, containing prosodic and grammatical treatises, with quotations and prose paraphrases of myths from old poems. This work (partly written by the Icelandic historian Snorre Sturluson c1230) has since 1642 been commonly called Snorre's Edda, or the Younger or Prose Edda.
b. A collection (made c1200) of ancient ON. poems on mythical and traditional subjects. The names ‘Elder or Poetic Edda’, ‘Edda of Sæmund’, were applied to this work by Biorn of Skardsá, who erroneously ascribed its compilation to the Icelandic historian Sæmund (d. 1133).
posted by kerinth of ithaca @ 6:09 AM
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"Edda" is the common slang in Iceland these days for "Livejournal".
But that was a gratuitous stab. This edda, I think, is earmarked to be a point of useful reference, and may be the first free online English/Kerinth translator.
Write away; right away.
In the NYTimes travel style magazine of Sunday, May 15, 2005, there's a great article on the 'adda,' the "tradition of freestyle intellectual conversation (that) lives on in Calcutta." Like a f2f journal, blog. Maybe Kerinth can figure out how to post the article in this blogsite; I just emailed it to him.
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