The Poetic Edda is an Icelandic collection of poems written in Old Norse by an anonymous source. The Poetic Edda is one of our top resources on Norse Mythology, preserving stories from Icelandic oral traditions. One of its most significant iterations is the Codex Regius, a manuscript written sometime in the 1270’s.
The poems of the Poetic Edda are as follows:
In Codex Regius
- Völuspá (The Prophecy of the Seeress)
- Hávamál (Sayings of the High One)
- Vafþrúðnismál (Vafthrúdnir’s Sayings)
- Grímnismál (Grímnir’s Sayings)
- Skírnismál (The Lay of Skírnir)
- Hárbarðsljóð (Hárbard’s Song)
- Hymiskviða (The Lay of Hymir)
- Lokasenna (Loki’s Quarrel)
- Þrymskviða (The Lay of Thrym)
- Völundarkviða (The Lay of Völund)
- Alvíssmál (All-Wise’s Sayings)
Not in Codex Regius
- Baldrs Draumar (Baldr’s Dreams)
- Gróttasöngr (The Mill’s Song, The Song of Grotti)
- Rígsþula (The Lay of Ríg)
- Hyndluljóð (The Lay of Hyndla)
- Völuspá in skamma (The Short Völuspá)
- Svipdagsmál (The Lay of Svipdag)
- Grógaldr (The Spell of Gróa)
- Fjölsvinnsmál (The Lay of Fjölsvid)
- Hrafnagaldr Óðins (Odins’s Raven Song)*
- Gullkársljóð (The Poem of Gullkár)*
* Late works not included in most editions after 1900.
