There is a suggestive word from the old Scandinavian edda, "Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path."
"Friendship"
Hugh Black
So the New Testament and Old Testament constitute two distinct species, of which they are the sole representatives of one genus of inspired books; but that genus belongs to the same order as the Vedas, edda, Zendavesta, and Koran, and that order belongs to the same class as the poems of Homer and Dante, the architecture of the Parthenon and the Strasburg Minster, the discovery of America by Columbus, and of the law of gravitation by Newton.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke
This prelate, who was a zealous collector of ancient manuscripts, found in the year 1643, the old vellum codex, which is the most complete of all the known manuscripts of the edda; of this he caused a transcript to be made, which he entitled edda Saemundi Multiscii.
"The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson"
Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson