I especially welcome the fact that this prose translation is aimed at understanding the text, rather than preserving a certain style. The Eddas and Sagas are important historical texts in Old Norse literature, often referenced to understand the culture, beliefs, and practices of the Norse people, including their mythology and heroic legends. Mínar biðk at munka r eyni meinalausan farar b eina; heiðis haldi hárar f oldar hallar dróttinn of mér st alli.

The Elder or Poetic Edda has been translated numerous times, the earliest printed edition being that by Cottle 1797, though some short sections had been translated as early as the 1670s. In western dialects of Old Norse the former became r- around the year 1000, but in some Eddic poems the word vreiðr, younger form reiðr, is seen to alliterate with words beginning in an original v-. Bilberry the blackbird is great, a super chatty fellow who knows something of everyone and everything.After the publication of Carnivorous Saint: Gay Poems, 1941-1976 , Norse established himself as a leading gay liberation poet in San Francisco, where he lived until his death in 2009. Much Old Norse poetry was originally preserved in oral culture, but the Old Norse language ceased to be spoken and later writing tended to be confined to history rather than for new poetic creation, which is normal for an extinct language.

It is possible that he was quoting a known poem, but it is also possible that Hávamál, or at least the strophe in question, is the younger derivative work. There were a number of variant stanza forms based on ljóðaháttr, including galdralag ("incantation meter"), which adds a fifth short (three-lift) line at the end of the stanza; in this form, the fifth line usually echoes the fourth. Frá dauða Sinfjötla ( Of Sinfjötli's Death, Sinfjötli's Death, The Death of Sinfjötli) (A short prose text.

seeks to give voice to the impressive range of women's poetry found within the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic literature [. Firm conclusions are difficult to reach; lines from the Eddic poems sometimes appear in poems by known poets.