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  1. Name given to two collections of early
  2. Icelandic literature, which together
  3. constitute our chief source for Old Norse
  4. mythology. The term strictly applies to the
  5. Younger or Prose Edda, compiled by Snorri
  6. Sturluson, a priest, about 1230. The Elder or
  7. Poetic Edda is the name given to a collection
  8. of poems discovered by Brynjolfr Sveinsson
  9. about 1643, written by unknown Norwegian
  10. poets of the 9th to 12th centuries.
  11.