This anonymous Old Norse poetic collection compiles mythological and heroic lays. It is a principal source for understanding Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends.
Sources for The Poetic Edda (anonymous, Old Norse)
The Poetic Edda (anonymous, Old Norse) in Epics
Held in the Epics chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Homer — The Iliad (−750)
- Homer — The Odyssey (−725)
- Epic of Gilgamesh (−2100)
- Virgil — The Aeneid (−19)
- Beowulf (anonymous, Old English) (1000)
- Vyasa (attrib.) — The Mahabharata (−400)
- Valmiki (attrib.) — The Ramayana (−500)
- Luo Guanzhong — Romance of the Three Kingdoms (San Kuo) (1400)
- Ferdowsi — Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (1010)
- Elias Lönnrot (compiler) — The Kalevala (1849)
- Apollonius of Rhodes — The Argonautica (Jason and the Golden Fleece) (−250)
- Statius — The Thebaid (Seven Against Thebes) (92)
- Snorri Sturluson — The Prose Edda (1220)
- The Saga of the Volsungs (1270)
- Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) (1100)
- The Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) (1450)
- The Book of Dede Korkut (1300)