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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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