The Elder Eddas (also known as the Poetic Edda) is a collection of
Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval
manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda,
the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse
mythology and Germanic heroic legends, and from the early 19th
century onwards has had a powerful influence on later Scandinavian
literatures, not merely through the stories it contains but through
the visionary force and dramatic quality of many of the poems. The
Codex Regius was written in the 13th century but lost until 1643
when it came into the possession of Brynjolfur Sveinsson.
Brynjolfur attributed the manuscript to Saemundr the Learned, a
12th century Icelandic priest. While this attribution is rejected
by modern scholars, the name Saemundar Edda is still sometimes
encountered. Like most early poetry the Eddic poems were minstrel
poems, passing orally from singer to singer and from poet to poet
for centuries. None of the poems are attributed to a particular
author though many of them show strong individual characteristics
and are likely to have been the work of individual poet
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