GENRE OF TRAVELING IN MYTHOPOETIC CYCLE OF "THE ELDER EDDA"
The objectives of this article are to determine the linguistic and stylistic features of the travel genre presented in the mythological songs of the Old Norse poetic epic «The Elder Edda», to explain their functioning within a particular song, to discover their common source, to analyze comparatively Eddic songs, to compare them with each other, and to establish of a certain hierarchy of songs, depending on the degree of representation of the given genre in them.