Brynjólfur Sveinsson (1605–1675) served as Bishop of the village Skálholt in the south of Iceland. He is currently pictured on the Icelandic 1000 krónur bill. In 1643 he named the collection of Old Norse mythological and heroic poems Edda. Events April 13 - Tsar Boris Godunow dies - Feodor II accedes to the throne May 16 - Paul V becomes Pope June 1 - Russian troops in Moscow imprison Feodor II and his mother. ... Events January 5 - The Battle of Turckeim August 10 - Building of the Royal Greenwich Observatory began November 11 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. ... A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who holds a specific position of authority in any of a number of Christian churches. ... Events January 21 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga February 6 - Abel Tasman discovers the Fiji islands. ... Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ... The Poetic Edda or Elder Edda is a term applied to two things. ...

Brynjólfur attributed the manuscript to Sæmundr fróði but scholars agree, that whoever wrote the Eddic poems, whether in the sense of being the compiler or the poet, it can't have been Sæmundr. The attribution is due to Brynjólfur Sveinsson, but it is not known how he reached that conclusion. What seems to be obvious, is multiple authorship over a long period of time. Saemund the wise (1056-1133) was an Icelander and Christian priest, who studied in Paris. ...