![]() ![]() The aim of the conversation was to figure out who was wiser. Vafþrúðnismál is comprised of a conversation between Odin (the most powerful Norse God) and a giant named Vafthrudnir. ![]() Both are rather encyclopedic in nature and are filled with names and facts, rather than stories. Sturluson also took inspiration from two other poems in the Poetic Edda, called Vafþrúðnismál and Grímnismál. The text also mentioned Muspelheim, which was a boiling hot realm. There was also an icy realm known as Niflheim, the source of eleven (or twelve) rivers. #INSTALL4J CREATE USER ID FULL#It stated that before the creation of the known universe, there was nothing but a void, probably full of magic. When Sturluson wrote about Ymir, he referenced the first text in the Poetic Edda, called the Völuspá. In the Prose Edda, Gylfi, King of Sweden before the arrival of the Aesir under Odin, travels to Asgard, questions the three officials shown in the illumination concerning the Aesir, and is fooled (18th-century Icelandic manuscript / Public Domain )
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