The problem is that in Old Norse mær means both " daughter " and " wife ," so it is not fully clear if Fjörgynn is Frigg's father or another name for her husband Odin, but Snorri Sturluson interprets the line as meaning Frigg is Fjörgynn's daughter ( Skáldskaparmál 27 ), and most modern translators of the Poetic Edda follow Snorri.

The Old Norse noun óðr may be the origin of the theonym Óðinn ( Anglicized as Odin ), and it means " mind ", " soul " or " spirit " ( so used in stanza 18. 1 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá ).

" Against Transparency: From the Radiant Cluster to the Word as Such " & " How it means: Making Poetic Sense in Media Society " in Radical Artifice, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

However, some scholars have translated the Poetic Edda attestation, which the Prose Edda attestation quotes, as not referring to the creature as any specific type.

The poem Völuspá hin skamma ( contained within the poem Hyndluljóð, oft considered a part of the Poetic Edda ) contains three stanza that scholars have frequently theorized as referring to Heimdallr and his nine mothers.

Sif is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the poetry of skalds.

In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, Sif is the wife of the god Thor and is known for her golden hair.

Sif is additionally mentioned in two kennings found in poems collected in the Poetic Edda ; Hymiskviða ( where Thor is referred to as the " Husband of Sif " thrice ), and Þrymskviða ( where Thor is once referred to as " Husband of Sif ").

" In his 19th-century translation of the Poetic Edda, Henry Adams Bellows comments that " some scholars have regarded as a solar myth, calling her the sun-goddess, and pointing out that her home in Fensalir (" the sea-halls ") symbolizes the daily setting of the sun beneath the ocean horizon.

In stanza 35 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that, among many other things, she sees Sigyn sitting very unhappily with her bound husband, Loki, under a " grove of hot springs ".

In the Poetic Edda, little information is provided about Sigyn other than her role in assisting Loki during his captivity.

In stanza 35 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, a Völva tells Odin that, amongst many other things, she sees Sigyn sitting very unhappily with her bound husband, Loki, under a " grove of hot springs ".

Valhalla is referenced at length in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, while Valhalla receives lesser direct references in stanza 33 of the Völuspá, where the god Baldr's death is referred to as the " woe of Valhalla ", and in stanzas 1 to 3 of Hyndluljóð, where the goddess Freyja states her intention of riding to Valhalla with Hyndla, in an effort to help Óttar, as well as in stanzas 6 through 7, where Valhalla is mentioned again during a dispute between the two.

In the prose introduction to the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, Frigg makes a wager with her husband — the god Odin — over the hospitality of their human patrons.

In the Poetic Edda, Brynhildr's trip to Hel after her death is described and Odin, while alive, also visits Hel upon his horse Sleipnir.

Medieval Welsh poetry refers to her as possessing the cauldron of Poetic Inspiration ( Awen ) and the Tale of Taliesin recounts her swallowing her servant Gwion Bach who is then reborn through her as the poet Taliesin.

Even if her name is not given, the Poetic Edda poem Alvíssmál, in which Thor's daughter is engaged to a dwarf, Alvíss, may also be about Þrúðr.

In both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Nótt is listed as the daughter of a figure by the name of Nörvi ( with variant spellings ) and is associated with the horse Hrímfaxi, while the Prose Edda features information about Nótt's ancestry, including her three marriages.

In the poem Grímnismál collected in the Poetic Edda, Odin ( disguised as Grímnir ) tells the young Agnar that Freyja allots seats to half of those that die in her hall Fólkvangr, while Odin receives the other half ( Fólkvangr is here anglicized to Fôlkvang and Folkvang ):

In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, Frigg is described as weeping over her son Baldr's death in Fensalir.

In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, Freyr sees Gerðr from a distance, becomes deeply lovesick at the sight of her shimmering beauty, and has his servant Skírnir go to Jötunheimr ( where Gerðr and her father Gymir reside ) to gain her love.

Reportedly the poet Alphonse de Lamartine also fell in love with her, and she was the inspiration for Elvire in his 1820 autobiographical Poetic Meditation " Le Lac " (" The Lake "), which describes in retrospect the fervent love shared by a couple from the point of view of the bereaved man.

The seeress speaks her prophecy in this illustration to a 19th century Swedish translation of the Poetic Edda.

Rudolf Simek says that her name, Mist, is likely related to Old Norse mistr, meaning " cloud, mist ," and that this " reminds us of the way in which valkyries can ride through the air and over water ," such as in the Poetic Edda poems Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II.

The event had a profound effect on the composer: he later recounted experiencing a religious awakening, and also published " Poetic Thoughts " on the death of his first wife in 1711.

In stanza 48 of the Poetic Edda poem Hárbarðsljóð, Hárbarðr ( Odin, father of Thor, in disguise ) meets Thor at an inlet of a gulf.

In the Poetic Edda poem Þrymskviða, the blessed of Vár is invoked by the jötunn Þrymr after his " bride " ( who is actually the god Thor disguised as the goddess Freyja ) is hallowed with the stolen hammer of Thor, Mjöllnir, at their wedding:

In the Poetic Edda poem Hárbarðsljóð, the god Thor comments that it was on Hlésey that he was attacked by and so fought " berzerk women " or " brides of berzerks " who had bewitched all of the men on the island.

In the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from traditional source material reaching into the pagan period, Thor appears ( or is mentioned ) in the poems Völuspá, Grímnismál, Skírnismál, Hárbarðsljóð, Hymiskviða, Lokasenna, Þrymskviða, Alvíssmál, and Hyndluljóð.

Alvíssmál (" Talk of Alvíss ") is a poem collected in the Poetic Edda, probably dating to the 12th century, that relates a conversation between Thor and a dwarf called Alvíss (" All-Wise ").

In the Poetic Edda poem Hymiskviða, Thor secures the goats, described as having " splendid horns ", with a human named Egil in the realm of Midgard before Thor and the god Tyr continue to the jötunn Hymir's hall.

In the Poetic Edda poem Hárbarðsljóð, Meili receives a single mention ; the god Thor declares that, even if he were an outlaw, he would reveal his name and his homeland, for he is the son of Odin, the brother of Meili, and the father of Magni.

* " Animals ", by Dead Poetic from Vices ( Dead Poetic album )

In various poems from the Poetic Edda ( stanza 2 of Lokasenna, stanza 41 of Hyndluljóð, and stanza 26 of Fjölsvinnsmál ), and sections of the Prose Edda ( chapter 32 of Gylfaginning, stanza 8 of Haustlöng, and stanza 1 of Þórsdrápa ) Loki is alternately referred to as Loptr, which is generally considered derived from Old Norse lopt meaning " air ", and therefore points to an association with the air.

The generally accepted meaning of Old Norse Yggdrasill is " Odin's horse ", even with both the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda defining " Odin's Horse " to actually be Sleipnir instead.

In the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva ( a shamanic seeress ) reciting the poem to the god Odin says that she remembers far back to " early times ", being raised by jötnar, recalls nine worlds and " nine wood-ogresses " ( Old Norse nío ídiðiur ), and when Yggdrasil was a seed (" glorious tree of good measure, under the ground ").

For The Hobbit almost all dwarf-names are taken from the Dvergatal or " Catalogue of the Dwarves ", found in the Poetic Edda.

* Christie's Hong Kong, November 2009 sale of Fine Modern Chinese Paintings, sold a work by Fu Baoshi titled " Landscape inspired by Dufu's Poetic Sentiments ", for HK $ 60, 020, 000 ( US $ 7, 780, 105 ) – a world record for the artist.

The six tracks were: " Chaos ", " Poetic Terrorism ", and " Amour Fou " ( all from " Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism "), " Immediatism ", and " The Tong " ( both from the book Immediatism ), and " Boycott Cop Culture " ( from " Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy ").

Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments was a small volume of poetry published in 1916 by American writers Witter Bynner, who wrote under the pseudonym " Emanuel Morgan ", and Arthur Davison Ficke, who wrote as " Anne Knish.

* " Hassaniya Arabic ( Mali ): Poetic and Ethnographic Texts ", Heath, Jeffrey ; Kaye, Alan S. / In: Journal of Near Eastern studies ; vol.

The Roman lyric poet and satirist Horace ( 65 – 8 BC ) first used the terms ab ovo (" from the egg ") and in medias res (" into the middle of things ") in his Ars poetica (" Poetic Arts ", ca.

Cōdex Rēgius ( which is Latin for " Royal Book ", in Icelandic Konungsbók ) ( GKS 2365 4to ) is an Icelandic manuscript ( See also Codex ) in which the Poetic Edda is preserved.

His Poetic style was known as " cultural ", because it was based on religious and historical themes.

* Compton, Todd, " The Trial of the Satirist: Poetic Vitae ( Aesop, Archilochus, Homer ) as Background for Plato's Apology ", The American Journal of Philology, Vol.

Poetic terms, such as " rhapsody " and " recital " and " tone poem ", entered music, and increasingly musicians felt that they should not take the repeats in symphonies because there was no dramatic or lyrical point to doing so.

The distinguishing characteristic of Faerie Faith is the use of the Beth-Luis-Nion " Celtic tree calendar ", allegedly invented by Robert Graves in his book, The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth.