The second part of Snorri Sturluson`s Prose Edda the Skáldskaparmál or `language of poetry` (c. 50,000 words) is effectively a dialogue between Ægir, the Norse god of the sea, and Bragi, the god of poetry, in which both Norse mythology and discourse on the nature of poetry are intertwined. The origin of a number of kennings are given and Bra......
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(from the article `Germanic religion and mythology`) ...have. He began with a poem exemplifying 102 different forms of verse, addressed to Haakon, the young king of Norway, and his uncle Earl Skúli ... ...poets) and to provide for a Christian age an understanding of the mythological subjects treated or alluded to in early poetry....
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