5/10/2023 0 Comments Prose edda![]() ![]() This article comes directly from content in the video series Norse Mythology. She has bit speaking parts here and there, but aside from her attempt to protect her son Balder, she is forever in the background.Ĭould this be because she and Freyja are imperfectly split portions of what was originally one figure? Frigg’s character is barely developed in our existing sources, where we find not even a family tree for her. There is no ‘expanded universe’ to answer such questions, and apparently, the medieval audience did not contemplate the ‘plot holes’ in the way a 21st-century audience might.įor example, it’s not even clear whether the seldom-seen goddess Frigg, Odin’s wife, is a distinct figure from the important goddess Freyja. Even when Snorri is not directly quoting poems of the kind we find in the Poetic Edda, he is probably transmitting stories equally as old.īut the medieval sources do not attempt to answer questions that modern readers are often tempted to ask. Snorri largely retells stories from the poems that he knew, and he does quote many of them. However, a poem like Hávamál uses stricter, more formalized language that is likely to reflect the wording of earlier centuries almost exactly-formal requirements such as alliteration only give so much wiggle room. The poems in the Poetic Edda use strict, formalized language, likely to reflect the wording of earlier centuries. ![]()
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