Editing Poetic Edda (section)

==Allusions and quotations==
* As noted above, the ''[[Prose Edda]]'' of [[Snorri Sturluson]] makes much use of the works included in the ''Poetic Edda'', though he may well have had access to other compilations that contained the poems and there is no evidence that he used the ''Poetic Edda'' or even knew of it.
* The ''[[Volsunga saga|Völsunga saga]]'' is a prose version of much of the Niflung cycle of poems. Due to several missing pages (see [[Great Lacuna]]) in the ''Codex Regius'', the ''Völsunga saga'' is the oldest complete source for the Norse version of much of the story of [[Sigurd|Sigurð]]. Only 22 stanzas of the ''[[Sigurðarkviða hin skamma|Sigurðarkviða]]'' survive in the ''Codex Regius'', plus four stanzas from the missing section which are quoted in the ''Völsunga saga''.
*[[J. R. R. Tolkien]], a [[Philology|philologist]] and scholar of Old Norse who was familiar with the Eddas, utilized concepts from them in his 1937 fantasy novel ''[[The Hobbit]]'', and in other works. For example:
**The [[Misty Mountains]] derive from the ''úrig fiöll'' in the ''[[Skírnismál]]''.<ref>{{citation| first = Tom| last = Shippey | author-link = Tom Shippey | year = 2003 | title = The Road to Middle-earth | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | at = Ch. 3 pp. 70–71 |isbn =0-618-25760-8}}</ref>
**The names of his [[List of The Hobbit characters#Dwarves|Dwarves]] derive from the ''Dvergatal'' in the ''[[Völuspá|Vǫluspá]]''.<ref>{{citation| first = John D. | last = Ratecliff | author-link = John D. Rateliff | year = 2007 | work = The History of The Hobbit | volume = 2 | title = Return to Bag-End | publisher =  HarperCollins| at =  Appendix III | isbn = 978-0-00-725066-0}}</ref>
**His ''[[The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún|Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún]]'' is a verse retelling or reconstruction of the Nibelung poems from the Edda (see ''[[Völsunga saga]]''), composed in the Eddaic ''[[fornyrðislag]]'' metre.