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    "name": "The Eddas",
    "stream": "western-european",
    "epoch_reflected": "greco-latin",
    "epoch_written": "greco-latin",
    "form": "scripture / mythography",
    "tradition": "Norse / Germanic",
    "year_approx": 1200,
    "note": "The Norse mythological corpus is preserved in two complementary texts: the Poetic Edda (Codex Regius, c. 1270; Bellows's 1923 translation) and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (c. 1220; Brodeur's 1916 translation). Together they contain the Ragnarök cycle (Völuspá, Vafþrúðnismál, Grímnismál; Gylfaginning). Old Norse originals are not included.",
    "steiner_loci": [
      "GA 121: The Mission of the Folk-Souls — the Northern wisdom-stream",
      "GA 107: The Deeper Secrets of Human Evolution — Ragnarök"
    ]
  },
  "parents": [],
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      "slug": "poetic-edda",
      "name": "Poetic Edda",
      "author": "Anonymous (Codex Regius, c. 1270; compiling 10th c. material)",
      "year_approx": 1270,
      "translator": "Henry Adams Bellows, 1923",
      "form": "mythological lays",
      "subtitle": null,
      "blurb": "Old Norse mythological and heroic lays preserved in the Codex Regius (c. 1270); textual material reaches back to the 10th c.",
      "chapter_count": 37,
      "word_count": 156565,
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    {
      "slug": "prose-edda",
      "name": "Prose Edda",
      "author": "Snorri Sturluson",
      "year_approx": 1220,
      "translator": "Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, 1916",
      "form": "prose mythography",
      "subtitle": null,
      "blurb": "Snorri Sturluson's c. 1220 Icelandic prose handbook for poets — a systematic exposition of Norse cosmology and myth (*Gylfaginning*) and poetic technique (*Skáldskaparmál*). Preserves myths whose Eddic-poem sources are lost. Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur's 1916 translation.",
      "chapter_count": 5,
      "word_count": 64056,
      "landing_url": "/sources/edda/prose-edda/",
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