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Prose Edda

Myth & story

Snorri Sturluson’s prose handbook of Norse myth and skaldic craft. Not the Poetic Edda’s verse lays alone, and not Gylfaginning as one framed section alone.

Also known as Younger Edda · Snorra Edda

Norse tradition

  • Prose Edda appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Prose Edda is the handbook that holds Gylfaginning’s cosmogony among Norse myth and skaldic craft. A named prose corpus in that tradition, not the Poetic Edda’s verse lays alone and not Gylfaginning as one frame only.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

    appears in · sourced · documented

  • 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

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson

    Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.