| The Eddic poems are not the only versions in Old Norse literature. |
| This volume provides an introductory survey of the last generation of scholarship on the corpus of eddic mythological poetry. |
| A good number of other poems in the eddic style are recorded elsewhere, very often inserted into prose narratives dealing with the exploits of legendary heroes. |
| Norse mythology, stories of the Norse deities, is preserved in Eddic poetry and in Snorri Sturluson's guide for skalds, the Poetic Edda. |
| Among the most famous manuscripts in the institute's care are Flateyjarbok, the largest of all the early Icelandic manuscript volumes and The Codex Regius of the Eddic poems. |
| Skaldic poetry forms one of two main groupings of Old Norse poetry, the other being the anonymous Eddic poetry. |
