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Major themes in Gylfaginning 1-34:

Covenant and Contest [cf. Otter’s Ransom, etc]

Odin’s character

Lesser characters:

Creator--Allfather

Njord & Skadi (& Nerthus?)

Gefjon’s bargain for Seland Gangleri’s challenge of Bor & Ymir (covenant or stronger

Culture hero-Golden Age

Frey and Freya

Frig/Freya marriage alliance? Njord for Hoenir Odin’s eye for drink of Mimir

Shaman and Lord of Heroic

Wisdom hanging on Yggdrasil [draw rough schema with roots

before Women from Jotunheim

Bragi and Idun (poetry and immortal youth)

dead in Valhalla, with Valkyries

Heimdall

Father by Jord of Thor ... ....by Frig (love?) of

Hoedir/Hödr blind (name

Baldr

taboo?) [and Saxo says,

to Midgard (3), Mimir (Norns), Nifleim (Hel);

Danish king] Notable only as agent of Balder’s death

eagle Ratoskar Nidthogg and stags devour Typical of this sense of impending doom like Bab. Erra

Tyr and Fenrir

Continue with these themes for Gylfaginning 38ff: esp. Siring of Sleipnir journey to Utgard Dear of Balder and Ragnarokr...