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The mythical world and man
The central axis of the mythical world described in Edda was marked by the ash Yggdrasill.
"I know where the ash stands, Yggdrasill is called,
His trunk is dewy with shining moisture,
Dew comes out of it, what falls in the valleys,
Circle …
In this case, attention is also drawn to the presence of a symbolic layer in the group of mythological works related to the cult of fertility.
Modern research has made it possible to establish, that the Codex Regius manuscript was written around 1270 year. However, it is difficult to define …
The songs in it must have been widely known, because numerous alterations and fragments of them can be found in many Icelandic manuscripts.
The poetic edda consists of two groups of songs. The first is 15 works on mythology. The second are heroic songs (21). …
Despite this, Edd Sturluson for many generations was the only relatively complete repository of knowledge about the mythological history of the Scandinavian world. Also today, however, it must be handled with great care, it is helpful in interpreting and supplementing myths, often known only fragmentarily …