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Gylfaginning
The framed questioning of Gylfi in Snorri’s Prose Edda that retells Norse cosmogony. Not the whole Prose Edda, and not Völuspá as the verse source alone.
Also known as The Beguiling of Gylfi
Norse tradition
Gylfaginning appears in Norse tradition.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning is itself the framed prose questioning that retells Norse cosmogony inside that tradition’s handbook speech. A named text appearing in the tradition, not the whole Prose Edda alone and not Völuspá as the verse twin.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Gylfaginning appears in Prose Edda.
Gylfaginning is the framed cosmogony book that sits inside Snorri’s Prose Edda. A named part appearing in that handbook, not gylfaginning→appears_in→norse as tradition seat alone and not Skáldskaparmál as a second book under one id.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Death of Baldr appears in Gylfaginning.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning narrates Baldr’s death, the mistletoe dart, and the funeral ship inside its framed questioning. A named episode appearing in that prose book, not death-of-baldr→appears_in→norse alone and not the Poetic Edda’s Baldrs draumar as a second corpus.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Binding of Fenrir appears in Gylfaginning.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning narrates the binding of Fenrir with Gleipnir inside its framed questioning. A named episode appearing in that prose book, not binding-of-fenrir→appears_in→norse alone and not the ruin swallowing as a second episode id.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Ragnarök appears in Gylfaginning.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning gives the long prose telling of Ragnarök’s signs, battle, and aftermath. A named episode appearing in that prose book, not ragnarok→appears_in→norse alone and not Völuspá as the verse twin alone.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Ginnungagap appears in Gylfaginning.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning opens cosmogony in Ginnungagap before Ymir and the world’s shaping. A named void-place appearing in that prose book, not ginnungagap→appears_in→norse alone and not void kind as a second id.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Útgarðr appears in Gylfaginning.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning is the prose book that stages the Útgarða-Loki journey. A named court appearing in that corpus, not utgard→appears_in→norse alone and not a Poetic Edda lay seat.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Völuspá is historically related to Gylfaginning.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning retells and leans on Völuspá’s cosmogony and Ragnarök speech inside its prose frame. A named historical transmission between verse lay and prose handbook, not voluspa→appears_in→poetic-edda as corpus seat alone and not identity of the two texts.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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sources
- Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.