Rígsþula
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Песнь о Риге — Старшая Эдда — Тексты — Северная Слава
norroen.info →Песнь о Риге (перевод А. И. Корсуна) Сказание о Риге (перевод С. Свириденко) Rígsþula (древнеисландский текст, ред. Guðni Jónsson) Rígsmál eða Rígsþula (древнеисландский ненормализированный текст, ред. Sophus Bugge, 1867 г.)
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- Part of
- Poetic Edda
- Genre
- myth
- Image
- Heimdall i Rigs skepnad.jpg
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- Commons category
- Rígsþula
- language of work or name
- Old Icelandic
- published in
- Codex Wormianus
- characters
- Heimdall
- title
- Rígsþula
- work available at URL
- norroen.info/src/edda/rig
- different from
- Rigveda
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thumb|right|300px|"Rig in Great-grandfather's Cottage" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood
Rígsþula or Rígsmál (Old Norse: 'The Lay of Ríg') is an Eddic poem, preserved in the Codex Wormianus (AM 242 fol), in which a Norse god named Ríg or Rígr, described as "old, wise, mighty and strong", fathers the social classes of mankind. The prose introduction states that Rígr is another name for Heimdall, who is also called the father of mankind in Völuspá. However, there seems to be some confusion of Heimdall and Odinn, see below.
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