Editing Poetic Edda (section)

===Authorship===
Like most early poetry, the Eddic poems were [[minstrel]] poems, passed orally from singer to singer and from poet to poet for centuries. None of the poems are attributed to a particular author, though many of them show strong individual characteristics and are likely to have been the work of individual poets. While scholars have speculated on hypothetical authors, firm and accepted conclusions have never been reached.