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.
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.
