Baldrs draumar

For the Norwegian ballet, see Baldurs draumar.
"Odin rides to Hel" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood

Baldrs draumar (Old Norse: 'Baldr's dreams')[1][2] or Vegtamskviða is an Eddic poem which appears in the manuscript AM 748 I 4to. It describes the myth of Baldr's death consistently with Gylfaginning. Bellows suggest that the poem was composed in the mid 10th century as well as the possibility that the author also composed Völuspá or at least drew from it, pointing at the similarity of stanza 11 in Baldrs draumar and stanzas 32-33 in Völuspá.[3] Additionally, the 14th stanza of Þrymskviða is almost identical to Baldrs draumar's 1st stanza. Only in the last sentence do the two diverge from one another. Guðni argued that Þrymskviða was the younger poem of the two and it had received the stanza from Baldrs draumar. [4]

  1. ^ Orchard 1997, p. 13.
  2. ^ Lindow 2002, p. 70.
  3. ^ "The Poetic Edda: Baldrs Draumar".
  4. ^ "Baldrs Draumar".