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    "author": "Snorri Sturluson",
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    "note": "Snorri Sturluson's c. 1220 Icelandic prose handbook for poets — a systematic exposition of Norse cosmology and myth (*Gylfaginning*) and poetic technique (*Skáldskaparmál*). Preserves myths whose Eddic-poem sources are lost. Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur's 1916 translation.",
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      "title": "Introduction",
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      "subtitle": "Brodeur's Introduction",
      "blurb": "Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur's 1916 introduction to his English translation of Snorri Sturluson's *Prose Edda*. The composition of the *Edda* in the 1220s as a poetics-manual for skaldic apprentices; Snorri's sources in the older oral and written tradition; the work's preservation of mythological material lost elsewhere."
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      "title": "Prologue",
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      "subtitle": "Prologue — the Christian-classical frame",
      "blurb": "Snorri's prologue placing the Norse gods within the frame of medieval euhemerist-Christian historiography. The Æsir descended from Trojan refugees; the gods are deified ancestors. The frame allowed Snorri to preserve the pagan mythology under a Christian apologetic cover."
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      "subtitle": "Gylfaginning — *the Beguiling of Gylfi* — the mythological encyclopedia",
      "blurb": "The first and most influential book. King Gylfi visits the hall of the Æsir; questions three figures (High, Just-As-High, Third) on the cosmos and the gods. Their answers form a structured encyclopedia of Norse mythology: creation, the gods, Asgard, Valhalla, the death of Baldr, Ragnarök. The single best surviving source for Norse mythological narrative."
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      "subtitle": "Skáldskaparmál — *the Language of Poetry*",
      "blurb": "Manual of skaldic poetic technique. Bragi the god of poetry instructs the seafarer Ægir on the *heiti* (poetic synonyms) and *kennings* (metaphorical compounds) by which the various gods, beings, weapons, ships, ravens, swords, gold, etc. are named in skaldic verse. The technical core of the *Prose Edda*."
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      "title": "Index",
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      "subtitle": "Brodeur's Index",
      "blurb": "Brodeur's index of proper names and technical terms with brief identifying notes. A useful reference apparatus for the dense Norse onomastic and the skaldic vocabulary of the *Skáldskaparmál*."
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