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	Edda - LoveToKnow 1911
		Gylfaginning, or the Delusion of Gylfi, on the other hand, is the most precious compendium which we possess of the mythological system of the ancient inhabitants of Scandinavia.
		It is from the Ynglingasaga and from the Gylfaginning that we gain all the information we possess about the conquering deities or heroes who set their stamp upon the religion of the North.
		The Eddaic version, however, of the history of the gods is not so circumstantial as that in the Ynglingasaga; it is, on the other hand, distinguished by an exquisite simplicity and archaic force of style, which give an entirely classical character to its mythical legends of Odin and of Loki.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Edda (2051 words)

	Heithni.org - Rydberg's Teutonic Mythology
		Gylfaginning, which makes the Asas dwell in Troy, therefore makes the gods undertake an enterprise of the greatest boldness, that of building a bridge from Troy to the heavens.
		Thence Gylfaginning draws the correct conclusion that Asgard was supposed to be situated at one end of the bridge and Urd's fountain near the other.
		But from Gylfaginning's premises it follows that if Asgard-Troy is situated on the surface of the earth, Urd's fountain must be situated in the heavens, and that the Asas accordingly when they ride to Urd's fountain must ride upward, not downward.
	www.heithni.org /rydberg/143.php (469 words)

	Gylfaginning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gylfaginning, or The tricking of Gylfi, is the first part of the Christian poet and historian Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.
		Together, the three works are known as the 'Younger Edda', so-called to distinguish it from the Elder Edda.
		The Gylfaginning deals with Gylfi's encounters with the Æsir, and his disguised journey as Gangleri to Asgard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gylfaginning (206 words)

	Annar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Norse mythology, according to the Gylfaginning, Annar (Old Norse Annarr 'second, another') was the father of Jörd 'Earth' by Nótt 'Night'.
		Annar/Ónar is also the name of a dwarf in the catalogue of dwarfs in the Völuspá repeated in the Gylfaginning.
		In the pseudo-historical genealogy of Odin's ancestors in the introduction to Snorri's Edda a certain Athra is said to be he "whom we call Annar".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Annar (209 words)

	Northvegr - Rydberg's Teutonic Mythology
		From this Gylfaginning draws the conclusion that Mimir was a frost-giant, and it identifies the root which extends to the frost-giants with the root that extends to Mimir's fountain.
		After these separations were made, Gylfaginning, to be logical, had to assume that the lower world of the heathens was exclusively a realm of misery and torture, a sort of counterpart of the hell of the Church.
		By this is meant, according to Gylfaginning, not the root over Mimir's well, but the root over Urd's fountain, near which the Asas hold their assemblies, for the Asas are in reality men who dwelt on earth in the city of Troy.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/rydberg/056.php (2004 words)

	Gylfi article - Gylfi Snorri Sturluson Sweden Odin Aesir Sigtuna Heimskringla Gylfaginning - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		According to Snorri Sturluson, Gylfi (occasionally Englished as Gylfe, Gylvi, or Gylve) was an ancient king of Sweden, from whom the supposedly historic Odin and his people the Aesir obtained new land where they built the settlement of Sigtuna.
		The account can be found in Sturluson's Ynglinga Saga section of his Heimskringla and more fully in the Gylfaginning section of his Edda, where he presents an outline of Norse mythology through a dialogue between Gylfi and three rulers of the Aesir.
		It is possible that Snorri's account is based on an old tradition tracing particular beliefs or foundations of particular cults to this legendary Gylfi.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Gylfi (173 words)

	Viktor Rydberg — Teutonic Mythology — Volume II, Part IV, Chapters 53—60
		From this Gylfaginning draws the conclusion that Mimer was a frost-giant, and it identifies the root which extends to the frost-giants with the root that extends to Mimer’s fountain.
		By this is meant, according to Gylfaginning, not the root over Mimer’s well, but the root over Urd’s fountain, near which the Asas hold their assemblies, for the Asas are in reality men who dwelt on earth in the city of Troy.
		Nowhere (except in Gylfaginning) is it said that he lives in the well Hvergelmer, though it is possible that he, in spite of his wings, was conceived as an amphibious being which also could subsist in the water.
	www.vaidilute.com /books/norroena/rydberg-06.html (15685 words)

	Cesar Pelli . Bank of America Corporate Center . 1982 . Minnesota . 1991 . 1981
		Gylfaginning, or The tricking of Gylfi, is the first part of the Christianity Christian poet and historian Snorri Sturluson s Edda.
		The Gylfaginning deals with the creation and destruction of the world of the Norse gods, and many other aspects of Norse Mythology Norse mythology.
		The Gylfaginning deals with Gylfi s encounters with the Aesir, and his disguised journey as Gangleri to Asgard.
	www.uk.knowledge-info.org /Cesar_Pelli-UK-8626886-ck (541 words)

	Read about Sons of Odin at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Sons of Odin and learn about Sons of Odin here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rind of whom Snorri says in the Gylfaginning: "Thor's mother Jörd and Vali's mother Rind are reckoned among the Ásyniur." In Saxo's account the corresponding figure is named Bous (sometimes Englished as Boe) and is fathered by Odin on Rinda daughter of the King of the Ruthenians.
		Hermód appears in Snorri's Gylfaginning as the messenger sent by Odin to Hel to seek to bargain for Balder's release.
		In Snorri's Gylfaginning Ali is only another name for Vali and Nep is the father of Baldur's wife Nanna.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Sons_of_Odin (2008 words)

	! Assembly of The Elder Troth - Article - Reaves - Position of Urds Well !
		But from Gylfaginning's premises it follows that if Asgard is situated on the surface of the earth, Urd's fountain must be situated in the heavens, and that the Aesir accordingly when they ride to Urd's fountain ride upward, not downward.
		The conclusion drawn by Gylfaginning by the aid of its Trojan premises is that since Urd's fountain is situated in the heavens and still under one of Yggdrasil's roots, that this root must be located further up in the heavens.
		After these separations, Gylfaginning, to be logical had to assume that the lower world of the heathens was exclusively a realm of misery and torture, a sort of counterpart to the Hell of the Church.
	www.aetaustralia.org /articles/arwrurdswell.htm (1932 words)

	Northvegr - Prose Edda - Brodeur Trans.
		The first part, the Gylfaginning or Beguiling of Gylfi, is an epitome of Odinic mythology, cast in the form of a dialogue between Gylfi, a legendary Swedish king, and the triune Odin.
		Gylfaginning, conceived in the true antiquarian spirit, supplies the mythological and legendary background which, in the Christian age that had superseded the vivid old heathen days, a young man might not know or might avoid.
		A needed transition from the literary to the technical portion of the book is supplied by Bragarædur, which narrates, in the same spirit as Gylfaginning, further useful tales, and concludes with a mythological account of the skaldic art.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/prose/intro002.php (1399 words)

	New Normandy - Soul Lore
		Where the purely physical nature of the body (that is, the wood of the trees themselves) has derived spontaneously from nature, it is the various spiritual and mental aspects of the human being that are bestowed by the Gods.
		Gylfaginning adds that this gift is the very life-force itself; the transition from inanimate to animate object.
		Gylfaginning tells us that this craft is associated with the sensory powers; speech, hearing, and sight.
	www.normannii.org /beliefs/soul.html (1679 words)

	Viktor Rydberg — Teutonic Mythology — Volume II, Part IV, Chapters 78—93
		A closer examination ought to have shown that Gylfaginning’s conception of “Muspel’s sons” is immensely at variance with the mythical.
		Gylfaginning is careful to keep these noble riders far away from every contact with that mob which Loke leads to the field of battle.
		This expression was misunderstood by the author of Gylfaginning himself, and the misunderstanding has continued to develop into the theory that Bergelmer was changed into a sort of Noah, who with his household saved himself in an ark when Bur’s sons drowned the primeval giants in the blood of their progenitor.
	www.vaidilute.com /books/norroena/rydberg-08.html (16938 words)

	Prose Eddas
		From this point on, barely maintaining the fiction of the dialogue, Snorri makes his work a treatise on the conventional vocabulary and phraseology of skaldship, for the guidance of young skalds.
		Even the Prologue, which many scholars consider spurious, is an integral part of the work--a fact established by Snorri's single address, in the character of the author, to beginners.
		This book, which comprised a general introduction on the ancient Scandinavian civilization, a translation of Gylfaginning, and a synopsis of Skáldskaparmál and Háttatal, was turned into English by Bishop Percy, under the title of Northern Antiquities.
	members.tripod.com /voices_of_wwpn/prose_eddas.htm (5050 words)

	Snorri’s Invention of Hermóðr’s helreið
		He has also cited it in a non-typical manner: whereas most quotations of eddic verse in Gylfaginning are authenticating, this stanza, unusually, is situational, in that its utterance is integral to the narrative, rather than being used to confirm or paraphrase a piece of information given by one of the narrating triumvirate.
		A substantial majority of verse citations in Gylfaginning are introduced with close variants of the phrases svá segir í… (if Snorri attributes it to a named poem), or svá segir hér (if he does not state his source).
		The anomalous position of these situational verses in Gylfaginning deserves fuller attention that is possible here, but Snorri seems to have differentiated between eddic poems which he thought were authoritative, and worthy of repeated citation by name, and those which could more freely be manipulated as part of a narrative.
	www.dur.ac.uk /medieval.www/sagaconf/abram.htm (4264 words)

	The Fantastical Theology of Snorri Sturluson:
		Thus Anthony Faulkes (1983) wrote that the Prologue ‘relates only to Gylfaginning, and thus is not in fact a prologue to the Edda as a whole, and is a narrative introduction that sets the scene for the ‘frame’ within which the mythological stories in Gylfaginning are told.
		In Gylfaginning, where Snorri stages the contest between Gylfi and the Æsir about heathen mythology, it is striking to find so many motifs that either parallel Christian holy history or remind us of parts of the catholic credo.
		Gylfaginning, too, is all about naming and listing names, giving sources for their origin and the genealogy of their bearer.
	www.dur.ac.uk /medieval.www/sagaconf/depins.htm (4686 words)

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		Snorri tells us in Gylfaginning 21 "One is called Ullr, son of Sif and stepson of Thor, he is so excellent a bowman, and so swift on snowshoes, that none may contend with him," (Arthur Brodeur, translation).
		In Gylfaginning 45, he preserves a tradition which tells us that once while stopping at the home of a peasant (which he does not name), Thor slew his goats and served them as supper to the gathered folk, with the warning that they were to break none of the bones.
		Of Ull, Gylfaginning 31 relates: "Ull, Sif's son and Thor's stepson, is one.
	www.squirrel.com /asatru/nidhad/AEsir_and_the_Elves.txt (9902 words)

	-- MONAS.nl -- article - the nine worlds in nordic mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Even when Gangleri asks Hár about other worlds than that of the gods in Gylfaginning 17, the answer is not what we are looking for.
		This is the major reason why people try to fill in the picture themself which as result: many different lists most of them without much explanation how people came up with the line that they give.
		Gylfaginning 34 suggests that Hel has her world in Niflheim, but if we put it like this, a human being can be on all three of the planes, which may fit well enough in the Northern picture.
	www.monas.nl /think/nineworlds.htm (1556 words)

	The Masks of Odin by Elsa-Brita Titchenell, ch 11 (Gylfaginning)
		The Masks of Odin by Elsa-Brita Titchenell, ch 11 (Gylfaginning)
		The title of this tale, Gylfaginning, is usually given as "The Mocking of Gylfe" for the verb ginna means to mock or to fool in Icelandic.
		This may, however, be another instance of semantic misunderstanding, like that which makes dwarfs into little people instead of unevolved souls.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/odin/odin-11.htm (712 words)

	Ratatoskr
		Being a skáld, a poet whose function was not only to be writing poems himself and have knowledge of all the different forms of verse, but also to be able to recite other peoples poems as a source of knowledge and history, he must have had a lot of information that we don't know about.
		The reason for having all the mythology in Gylfaginning (the chapter on the mythology), is closely connected to this.
		To this he wrote a commentary on the metric values of the poem (see above, the '3 ways'), which in content is rather ordinary, but in form is unique, as it consists of 102 verses on 100 different metric rules.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/1734/squirrel.htm (2190 words)

	Untitled Document
		She is the reason of the theft of Mjöllnir; Thor as the owner must take on Freyja's disguise which seems to be the most ridiculous motif in the whole epic.
		Her function is to hold the apples of the eternal youth (Prose Edda, "Gylfaginning", XXVI; "Bragi's Speeches", LVI); the fact is not mentioned in the Poetic Edda.
		Anyway, she is the cause of the fact that Freyr goes to the last battle without his sword and is slain, as is noted in the Prose Edda, "Gylfaginning", XXXVII.
	geocities.com /odinistlibrary/OLArticles/Articles/positionofwomeninedda.htm (8451 words)

	Gylfaginning \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Gylfaginning, or the Tricking of Gylfi, is the first part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.
		The Gylfaginning deals with the creation and destruction of the world of the Norse gods, and many other aspects of Norse mythology.
		The second part of the Prose Edda is called the Skáldskaparmál and the third Háttatal.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Gylfaginning (70 words)

	Germanische Glaubens- Gemeinschaft \| Startseite
		Auf dieser Seite geht es um die 1907 gegründete Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft, außerdem um die germanische Mythologie allgemein.
		Unter den Rubriken "Die Ältere Edda" und "Die Jüngere Edda" wird über diese Hauptquellen zur Germanischen Mythologie informiert; die Rubrik "Gylfaginning" führt diesen ersten Teil der Jüngeren Edda (aufgeschrieben im 13.
		Es ist eine gute und verständliche Einführung in die Germanische Mythologie, eine Vision an den Schwedenkönig Gylfi, die er in Asgard von den Göttern selbst erfuhr.
	www.germanische-glaubens-gemeinschaft.de (181 words)

	Einheit - Produktionen \| Oakenshield
		After reading through the legends, myths and lore of the Old Norse mythology, it was decided that the first book of the Prose Edda, „Gylfaginning” was the perfect choice for the album’s theme.
		Writing the material for the album started almost immediately and after some time the full eleven tracks were completed.
		In early 2007 four of these tracks – as well as a cover of Bathory’s „Home Of Once Brave” – were selected for a demo entitled simply „Gylfaginning Demo”.
	www.einheit-produktionen.de /index.php?id=191,0,0,1,0,0 (298 words)

	! Assembly of The Elder Troth - Article - Reaves - Food of the Gods !
		Gylfaginning 39 says "For meat, they all feast on the boar Saehrimnir (Sea-sooty), for, although the boar is boiled every morning, he becomes whole again every night.
		Gylfaginning 39 adds: "Odin gives whatever meat is set before him on the table to his two wolves, Geri and Freki, for he himself requires no food.
		For Him, mead is both meat and drink." Gylfaginning 37 informs us that one of the duties of the Valkyries was to serve the Einherjar in Valhalla.
	www.aetaustralia.org /articles/arwrfoodgods.htm (2025 words)

	LOKI. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to Smart Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Also in Hyndluljod, he ate the cooked heart of a woman which he found in the embers through this he came with child, and gave birth to an unknown monster.
		In Gylfaginning (33) Snorri says that Included among the Aesir is he whom some call the slanderer of the Aesir or the author of deceit and the shame of god and men.
		In Gylfaginning (41), the Aesir have hired a giant to fortify their stronghold in Asgard, and has promised him Freyja, the sun and the moon as his reward, provided that the walls would be finished within half a year.
	www.smartessay.com /essay/010318.html (5995 words)

	Investigations into OLB Chapter III
		This is the saga of her plowing out a piece of land with four giant oxen, said to be her sons in this guide, to create both Zealand and either the Väner (Wener) or the Mälar Lake.
		This would have had to take place during the first Fimbulwinter, when the Jötuns were in control of Greater Svithjod, and it would have had to have been done for the purposes of securing a southern Scandinavian area of land for the emigrating Nordics.
		When she returns tshe has not come as a beggar woman, as seen in Gylfaginning, but as a stately maid in line for the rank of Folksmother for the sake of luring Kalta’s identity as Gullveig out into the open.
	www.norroena.org /chapter3.html (2941 words)

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