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The Poetic Edda

Anonymous

The most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, detailing the gods, Ragnarok, and Thor.

Cattle die, kinsmen die, one’s self dies the same; but one thing I know that never dies: the fame of a dead man.

Anonymous

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The most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, detailing the gods, Ragnarok, and Thor.

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An unnamed collection of Old Norse poems.

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The most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, detailing the gods, Ragnarok, and Thor.

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An unnamed collection of Old Norse poems.

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