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    The Prose Edda is a 13th century work compiled by Snorri Sturluson that details Norse mythology. It is comprised of the Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál, and Háttatal. Gylfaginning recounts the tricking of King Gylfi and his encounters with the gods who reveal Norse creation myths. Skáldskaparmál discusses poetic language and kennings. Háttatal demonstrates Old Norse poetic forms. The Prose Edda was an important compilation of Norse myths and a guide to poetic language.

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    The Prose Edda is a 13th century work compiled by Snorri Sturluson that details Norse mythology. It is comprised of the Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál, and Háttatal. Gylfaginning recounts the tricking of King Gylfi and his encounters with the gods who reveal Norse creation myths. Skáldskaparmál discusses poetic language and kennings. Háttatal demonstrates Old Norse poetic forms. The Prose Edda was an important compilation of Norse myths and a guide to poetic language.

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    The Prose Edda is a 13th century work compiled by Snorri Sturluson that details Norse mythology. It is comprised of the Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál, and Háttatal. Gylfaginning recounts the tricking of King Gylfi and his encounters with the gods who reveal Norse creation myths. Skáldskaparmál discusses poetic language and kennings. Háttatal demonstrates Old Norse poetic forms. The Prose Edda was an important compilation of Norse myths and a guide to poetic language.

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    The Prose Edda is a 13th century work compiled by Snorri Sturluson that details Norse mythology. It is comprised of the Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál, and Háttatal. Gylfaginning recounts the tricking of King Gylfi and his encounters with the gods who reveal Norse creation myths. Skáldskaparmál discusses poetic language and kennings. Háttatal demonstrates Old Norse poetic forms. The Prose Edda was an important compilation of Norse myths and a guide to poetic language.

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    • The prose Edda is a treatise on versification together with a

    collection of Scandinavian myths, legends, and poems compiled


    by Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), the Icelandic historian and
    poet.
    • Names -The Prose
    Edda,Younger
    Edda,Snorri's Edda, Edda
    • Author-Snorri Sturluson
    • Country-Iceland
    • Language-Old Icelandic
    • Year-1220
    • It survives in 7 main
    manuscripts, written
    down from about 1300 to
    about 1600.
    The Prologue
    • The Prologue is the first section of
    four books of the Prose Edda, and
    consists of an euhemerized
    (euhemerism-the theory that gods
    arose out of the deification of
    historical heroes) Christian
    explanation of the origins of Nordic
    mythology: the Nordic gods are
    described as human Trojan warriors
    who left Troy after the fall of that
    city.
    • According to the Edda, these
    warriors settled in northern Europe,
    where they were accepted as divine
    kings because of their superior
    culture and technology.
    Gylfaginning or the Tricking of Gylfi

    • Consist of around
    20,000 words
    • It is the first
    part of The
    Prose Edda after
    Prologue.
    • In Gylfaginning, Snorri Sturluson enumerates 12
    gods and 13 goddesses who, together with Óðin
    and his wife Frigg, make up the Norse pantheon
    • The Gylfaginning deals with the creation and
    destruction of the world of the Norse gods, and
    many other aspects of Norse mythology.
    • The Gylfaginning tells the story
    of Gylfi, a king of "the land that
    men now call Sweden", who after
    being tricked by one of the
    goddesses of the Æsir, wonders
    if all Æsir use magic and tricks
    for their will to be done. This is
    why he journeys to Asgard, but
    on the way he is tricked by the
    gods and arrives in some other
    place, where he finds a great
    palace.
    • Inside the palace he encounters a man
    who asks Gylfi's name and so king Gylfi
    introduces himself as Gangleri.
    Gangleri then is taken to the king of
    the palace and encounters 3 men; High,
    Just-As-High, and Third.
    • Gangleri is then challenged to show his
    wisdom by asking questions. Each
    question made to High, Just-As-High,
    and Third is about an aspect of the
    Norse mythology or its gods, and also
    about the creation and destruction of
    the world.
    •In the end all the
    palace and its
    people just vanish
    and Gylfi is left
    standing on empty
    ground.
    •It is then implied
    that as Gylfi
    returns to his
    nation, he retells
    the tales he was
    told.
    Skáldskaparmál or "language of poetry"
    • Consist of around
    50,000 words
    • It is a second
    part of the Porse
    Edda and is
    effectively a
    dialogue between
    Ægir (The Norse
    god of the sea)
    and Bragi(The
    god of poetry and
    music, son of
    Odin)

    Ægir
    Bragi
    • In this part is given the
    origin of a number of
    kennings and Bragi then
    delivers a systematic list
    of kennings for various
    people, places and things.
     Kenning is a conventional
    metaphoric name for something,
    esp. in Old Norse and Old English
    poetry, such as Old English bānhūs
    (bone house) for "body"
    • Bragi then goes on to
    discuss poetic language in
    some detail, in particular
    heiti (the concept of
    poetical words which are
    non-periphrastic) e.g.
    steed for horse, and again
    systematizes these. This
    in a way forms an early
    form of poetic thesaurus
    (dictionary of synonyms
    and antonyms).
    Háttatal
    • Consist of around
    20,000 words.
    • It is a
    demonstration of
    verse forms used in
    Norse mythology.
    •In this part he gives some examples of the
    types of verse forms used in Old Norse poetry.
    •Snorri took a prescriptive as well as
    descriptive approach; he has systematized the
    material, and often notes that "the older poets
    didn't always" follow his rules.
    •Most of the forms depend on number of
    syllables per line, as well as assonance,
    consonance, and alliteration. Although end
    rhyme is represented, it does not function in
    the ways most modern English speakers expect
    (forms include AAAAAAAA, and AAAABBBB),
    and plays a very minor role.
    Thanks for attention 

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