WELCOME TO SYNTHETICA EDDA

About The SYNTHETICA EDDA Project:

The SYNTHETICA EDDA Project is an evolving anthology of poems and stories created by Niklen in 2015 that explores the philosophical and emotional mindsets of everyday life through poetry, storytelling, mythology, and creative worldbuilding. The name ‘SYNTHETICA’ draws from the Neo-Latin adjective syntheticus and Greek root synthetic with a distinct feminine suffix. The name ‘EDDA' draws from Old Norse terminology meaning a collection of poems, connecting the project to the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, the renowned medieval collections through which much of the surviving mythology of the Scandinavian world is preserved.
SYNTHETICA EDDA functions both as an emotional outlet and as a long-term creative project, representing different mindsets and experiences across many years. The website serves as a public archive of the poems and stories written for close ones and for those interested in following the creative process before its eventual publication as a completed collection. The primary objective is to develop an anthology of 120 poems and four stories, in the form of mythopoetic eddic prose, into an approximately 200-page poetry collection that structurally echoes the Eddas while applying a more contemporary and structuralist approach to poetry and storytelling.
The completed collection will organize its poems alphabetically rather than chronologically, without publication dates, with a minimum of one poem representing each letter of the alphabet. Its planned structure consists of the first eddic, the first 40 poems, the second eddic, the second 40 poems, the third eddic, the third 40 poems, and the final eddic. The website documents the development of this larger work through a series of chronological blog sections known as the project’s six “Eras,” allowing each poem to remain connected to the period, interests, experiences, and media that influenced its creation. 
UPDATE: As of September 2026, the project is roughly 55% done ツ

The Runic Symbol Behind the SYNTHETICA EDDA Project: 

Runes are an old Norse method of divination that  used on good luck amulets and protection talimans. Runes are normally cast onto clothing or inscribed onto pieces of stone or wood for ritualistic, Pagan purposes. The logo contains Elder Fuþark (Futhark) runes, which is the oldest Norse alphabet and consists of 24 letters. A bind rune is a series of runes put together on a singular vertical line (stave) or in a radial pattern (radial stave) to create a symbol that has a conceptual meaning. This bind rune is supposed to represent the communication and understanding of creativity and emotions through an awakening of nature by overcoming life's obstacles. 
  • ᚨ or A [Ansuz] - Represents an estuary - Symbolizes mouth, communication, understanding, and inspiration
  • ᚲ or C/K [Kennaz] - Represents a torch - Symbolizes vision, creativity, inspiration, improvement, and vitality
  • ᚺ or H [Hagalaz] - Represents hail - Symbolizes nature, wrath, being tested, and overcoming obstacles
  • ᛚ or L [Laguz] - Represents water - Symbolizes intuition, emotions, flow, renewal, dreams, and hopes and fears
  • ᛞ or D [Dagaz] - Represents dawn - Symbolizes awakening, certainty, illumination, completion, and hope
There is no proper way to write a bind rune. The sigil created for this project was completely created by hand and transferred over into a photo-editing software to give off the "ink-blot" look it portrays.
Please keep in mind that this sigil is a contemporary expression of a bind rune and is not fully anthropologically correct. Elder Fuþark is an alphabetic language as a result of its anglicization as it was originally iconographic; Due to it's anglicization, runes are often misused and misconstrued. The author drew this symbol to be a representation of the project here as being artistically derivative of ‘Hugr’ meaning mind or soul in Old Norse terminology.

Main Inspirations:

Music is the universal language. Music listened to during the creation of SYNTHETICA EDDA is one of its primary sources of inspiration, alongside a broad range of mixed media including movies, television shows, comic books, novellas, short stories, allegories, poetry, video games, and ARGs. These influences reflect the author’s everyday media consumption and provide the foundation for a new literary lens through which the author seeks to better clarify, comprehend, and reinterpret stereotypes, folkloric motifs, and sociocultural tropes within media through the utilization of poetry.
The musical genres most influential to the project include EDM, Hip-Hop, Rap/R&B, Jazz, and Hyperpop, whose rhythms, language, structures, and aesthetics contribute to the project’s evolving literary style. Because the project develops alongside the author’s changing interests and experiences, individual poems can reflect the media, subjects, and activities that surrounded their creation at the time of publication. These influences are documented throughout the six Eras, creating an evolving record of how the project’s literary world develops over time.
The writing form is primarily freeform, but frequently becomes highly experimental through the use of structured syllabic rhythms, varied stanzaic structures, rhyme, repetition, and techniques inspired by different poetic forms. Traditional and contemporary literary influences are therefore allowed to coexist with music, popular culture, folklore, mythology, and speculative fiction, creating a body of work in which each poem can operate simultaneously as an individual expression and as part of a larger interconnected literary world.
Through this combination of poetry, music, mixed media, mythology, and personal experience, SYNTHETICA EDDA explores how cultural narratives are created, interpreted, remembered, and transformed—and how poetry can provide a new lens through which to understand the stories and ideas that surround us.