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Mead of poetry

The Norse episode of the poetic mead’s making, theft, and gift of skaldship. Not every inspiration drink, and not Odin as a being alone.

Norse tradition

Mead of poetry appears in Norse tradition.
Hávamál in the Poetic Edda seats Óðinn’s winning of the poetic mead among counsel and theft speech. A named mead-of-poetry episode in that poem, not every inspiration drink and not Óðrerir as the vessel alone already walked.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Mead of poetry appears in Poetic Edda.
The poetic-mead winning is carried in Hávamál inside the Poetic Edda. A named episode’s presence in that corpus, not a Skáldskaparmál-only invent and not Óðrerir alone.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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sources

Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.