Skáldskaparmál (Old Norse: 'Poetic Diction' or 'The Language of Poetry'; Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈskaldskaparˌmɒːl]; Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈskaultˌskaːparˌmauːl̥])...
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Prose Edda (section Skáldskaparmál)
aspects of Norse mythology (consisting of approximately 20,000 words), Skáldskaparmál, which continues this format before providing lists of kennings and...
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53). Snorri Sturluson confirms it (Gylfaginning, 53, Skáldskaparmál, 4). According to Skáldskaparmál (17) Magni is the son of Thor and the Jötunn Járnsaxa...
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Jötunheimr (section Skáldskaparmál)
Sturluson 2018, Skáldskaparmál, chapter 2. The giant Þjazi carried off Iðunn, chapter 3. Loki secured Iðunn and the slaying of Þjazi. Skáldskaparmál (ON), 2....
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translation Skáldskaparmál opens with a narrative wherein twelve gods sit upon thrones at a banquet, including Týr. Later in Skáldskaparmál, the skald...
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Yngling (section From the Skáldskaparmál)
here they are called Scylfings (see the Beowulf section below). In his Skáldskaparmál the 13th-century Icelandic writer Snorri Sturluson hints at a less divine...
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Valhalla (section Skáldskaparmál)
Kára. Valhalla is referenced in the Prose Edda books Gylfaginning and Skáldskaparmál. Valhalla is first mentioned in chapter 2 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning...
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Urðarbrunnr (section Skáldskaparmál)
Gylfaginning (chapters 15, 16, and the beginning of chapter 17), and twice in Skáldskaparmál. In chapter 15 of Gylfaginning, a book of the Prose Edda, the throned...
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(sacrifices) to her: Freyja appears in the Prose Edda books Gylfaginning and Skáldskaparmál. In chapter 24 of Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of High says that...
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be about Þrúðr, but the daughter is not named. The Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál (4) tells that Thor can be referred to by the kenning "father of Þrúðr"...
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