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    Gylfaginning (Old Norse: 'The Beguiling of Gylfi' or 'The Deluding of Gylfi'; 13th century Old Norse pronunciation [ˈɟʏlvaˌɟɪnːɪŋɡ]) is the first main...
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    etymonline.com. Section III of Gylfaginning, in translation by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (1916), p. 16. Section VII of Gylfaginning, in translation by Brodeur...
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  • Asgard (section Gylfaginning)
    1948. Sturluson 2018, Gylfaginning, chapter 14. Sturluson & Byock 2005. Sturluson 2018, Gylfaginning, chapter 8, 9. Gylfaginning (ON), Chapter 9. Sturluson...
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    5. Bellows 2004, Grimnismol stanza 5 notes. Gylfaginning (ON), Chapter 17. Sturluson 2018, Gylfaginning, chapter 17. Bellows, Henry Adam (2004). The...
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    her: Freyja appears in the Prose Edda books Gylfaginning and Skáldskaparmál. In chapter 24 of Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of High says that after...
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    parallels Virgil's Aeneid). Gylfaginning (Old Icelandic 'the tricking of Gylfi') follows the Prologue in the Prose Edda. Gylfaginning deals with the creation...
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    is mentioned in three books: Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál and Háttatal. In chapter 13 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, Fenrir is first mentioned in...
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    being the only thing he lacked. Jötunheimar are referenced throughout Gylfaginning such as when Gefjun takes four oxen, who were her sons with a jötunn...
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  • (Völuspá hin skamma) as the mother of Fenrir by Loki. The Prose Edda (Gylfaginning) describes her as "a giantess in Jötunheimar" and as the mother of three...
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  •  20, 42. Gylfaginning (ON), Chapter 17. Sturluson 2018, Gylfaginning, chapter 17. Gylfaginning (ON), Chapter 22. Sturluson 2018, Gylfaginning, chapter...
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    highest up is called Third. — Jesse Byock translation, Gylfaginning, Chapter 2 The rest of the Gylfaginning then proceeds as a dialogue between Gangleri (Gylfi's...
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    version in the Prose Edda around the year 1220. As recounted in Snorri's Gylfaginning based on the Eddic poem Völuspá, one sign of the coming of Ragnarök is...
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    found in chapter 33 of Gylfaginning "hardly suggests a goddess", but that "in the account of Hermod's ride to Hel later in Gylfaginning (49)", Hel "[speaks]...
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  • magical void mentioned in three poems from the Poetic Edda and the Gylfaginning, the Eddaic text recording Norse cosmogony. Ginnunga- is usually interpreted...
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    Freyr (section Gylfaginning)
    (ed.) (2005). Snorra-Edda: Formáli & Gylfaginning : Textar fjögurra meginhandrita. Published online: GYLFAGINNING Finnur Jónsson (1913). Goðafræði Norðmanna...
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  • Snorri Sturluson puts it in Gylfaginning. Nál is mentioned twice in the Prose Edda as "Laufey or Nál"; once in Gylfaginning and once in Skáldskaparmál...
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    of Muspell move into battle') can be found in chapters 18 and 36 of Gylfaginning. The Poetic Edda contains various references to Ragnarök: In the Poetic...
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    of the Vanir". Jakobsson 1998, p. 63. Nafnaþulur. Gylfaginning 21-30. Gylfaginning 11-20. Gylfaginning 31-40. Gunnell 2015, pp. 55–56, 60–61. Frog 2021...
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  • In Norse mythology, according to the Gylfaginning, Annar (Old Norse Annarr 'second, another') is the father of Jörð (Mother Earth) by Nótt (the Night)...
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    great tragedy to the Æsir and a harbinger of Ragnarök. According to Gylfaginning, a book of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Baldr's wife is Nanna and their...
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    Svaðilfari fathered Sleipnir with Loki: In chapter 42 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells a story set in the early days and after the gods had established...
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    The Völuspá says: Snorri Sturluson quotes this part of Völuspá in the Gylfaginning section of his Prose Edda. He uses the plural of the word: Nástrandir...
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    2018, Gylfaginning, chapter 50 & 51. Gylfaginning, Chapter 50 & 51. Simek 2008, p. 324. Sturluson 2018, Gylfaginning, chapter 5. Gylfaginning, Chapter...
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    Skuld (section Gylfaginning)
    poem collected in the 13th century Poetic Edda: In the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, Snorri informs the reader that the youngest Norn, Skuld, is in effect...
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    Skaði (section Gylfaginning)
    Skaði is attested in two books: Gylfaginning and Skáldskaparmál. In chapter 23 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of High details...
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  • Swedish Nidhögg. The English cognate would be Nithhewer. According to the Gylfaginning part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Níðhǫggr is a being which gnaws...
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    that she is "unknown elsewhere." In chapter 4 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of Third tells Gangleri (described as King Gylfi...
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  • poems Vafþrúðnismál and Baldrs draumar, and also in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning. According to Snorri Sturluson's work, Niflhel could be interpreted as...
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    with the painted shield' Gylfaginning, Grímnismál (49), Óðins nǫfn (6) Bileygr Bileyg 'the one with poor sight' Gylfaginning, Grímnismál (47), þulur,...
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    the Prose Edda books Gylfaginning and Skáldskaparmál. Valhalla is first mentioned in chapter 2 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, where it is described...
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