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 .....
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(from the article `Germanic religion and mythology`) ...Diction`), explaining and illustrating the abstruse allusions to gods and ancient heroes in the poetry of the skalds. After this, he wrote an ... ...(`A Catalog of Metres`), giving examples of 102 metres known to Snorri—are of interest chiefly to specialists in ...
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