Edda Quotes

“But Loki's relations with Svadilfari were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt.”
― Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology

“You forgive yourself for what you've done," Edda told her. "You admit mistakes. You learn from them. And you improve.”
― Sara Raasch, These Rebel Waves

“Norse mythology hints at Odinic cults, with Odin being worshipped through a combination of ecstatic and seemingly shamanistic rituals. From the eddic poem The Sayings of the High One ( Hávamál ), he is said to have hanged himself in a sacrificial ritual on a tree. Barely surviving this ordeal, Odin gains arcane knowledge, including the use of runes, the ancient Scandinavian alphabet sometimes used for magical purposes. In the poem, Odin chants :
I know that I hung
on the wind-swept tree
all nine nights
with spear was I wounded
and given to Odin,
myself to me,
on that tree which no one knows
from which roots it grows.

Bread I was not given,
no drink from the horn,
downwards I glared;
up I pulled the runes,
screaming I took them,
from there I fell back again.

- excerpt from Jesse L. Byock's Introduction and Notes, of Sturluson's Prose Edda.”
― Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology

“Cozinhamos reclamando de perda de tempo, quando podíamos estar transformando amor em comida.”
― Paulo Coelho (Autor)

“Há uma casa de que o sol não tem visão,
nas praias escuras de sombria construção
onde a Costa Mortal tocam as frias ondas
e para norte se volta a porta embrenhada nas sombras;
a chuva venenosa os tabiques deixam passar,
das serpentes na parede a avançar.

Carregados com fardos pesados aí se arrastam
os homens perjuros, os homens que traíram
a confiança de um amigo; e aí o acobardado
e o lobo assassino é devorada:
de Yggdrasil, ainda o dragão
as raízes mordia, mas aí encontra a satisfação.

Apressa-se o dragão em voo débil
Sobre a praia escura e estéril,
das terríveis profundezas saltará
e sob a asa esses corpos transportará,
mergulhando então, os mares sobre a sua cabeça serão fechados
para sempre, sobre mortos e condenados.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún