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Snorri's Edda (the Prose Edda).
by J. Zimmerman
Who was Snorri Sturluson?
The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson: Tales from Norse Mythology
selected and translated by Jean I. Young.
Gylfaginning: The Deluding of Gylfi.
Who's Who and Relationships.
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Snorri wrote:
While Snorri Sturluson appears to have been a nasty man, "His fame rests on his literary genius, all in all the greatest of ancient Scandinavia." [Hollander].
The Uppsala Codex (parchment of about 1320) names Snorri's book as Edda. Its three parts are:
The prologue is a jumble of Christian myths and tales of the origins of the Æsir in ancient Troy, leading to their migration to northwest Europe where these tales are set.
First is the tale of King Gylfi of Sweden, and how he lost land that became Zealand to a beggar-woman, a disguised woman of the Æsir. Wanting to obtain some of the powers of the Æsir, Gylfi set out for Asgard, and asked the three enthroned men he met to tell him about their gods. At the end of the story, Gylfi is suddenly on an empty plain, so he is doubly deluded: once by the beggar-woman who obtained his lands by a trick; and once by the enthroned men who may or may not have existed.
However, these are the stories that the enthroned men told:
Brothers will fight and kill each other, ... an axe-age, a sword age, shields will be cloven, a wind-age, a wolf-age, before the world's ruin. |
This section gives the travel tales of a man called Ægir,
who traveled to Æsgard, and met in the evening with
Oðin and
the twelve high gods of the Æsir:
Bragi,
Frey,
Forseti,
Heimdall,
Hœnir,
Loki,
Njörd,
Thór,
Týr,
Ull,
Váli,
Víðar;
and with these greatest goddesses of the Æsir:
Frigg,
Freyja,
Fulla,
Gefjon,
Gerð,
Iðun,
Nanna,
Sigyn.
Ægir sat next to Bragi, who told him these stories:
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