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    The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda (Icelandic: Snorra Edda) or, historically, simply as Edda, is an Old Norse textbook written...
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  • 1984) Snorri Sturluson (1879) ed. Rasmus B. Anderson. The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology Digital reissue Digireads.com (2009) ISBN 1-4209-3460-0 Snorri Sturluson...
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    Freyr (section Prose Edda)
    for more than two centuries. In the Gylfaginning section of his Prose Edda, Snorri introduces Freyr as one of the major gods. This description has similarities...
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    prior to the recording of the version in the Prose Edda around the year 1220. As recounted in Snorri's Gylfaginning based on the Eddic poem Völuspá, one...
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    Ljósálfar and the Dökkálfar are attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the late Old Norse poem Hrafnagaldr...
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    Eir (section Poetic Edda)
    in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and...
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    Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Byock, Jesse, trans. (2005). Snorri Sturluson: The Prose Edda. Penguin...
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    Prose Edda were known in Iceland, but scholars speculated that there once was another Edda, an Elder Edda, which contained the pagan poems that Snorri quotes...
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    in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and...
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    Baldr (section Poetic Edda)
    harbinger of Ragnarök. According to Gylfaginning, a book of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Baldr's wife is Nanna and their son is Forseti. Baldr had the...
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