People believed this to be able to recognize why, because the names of their forefathers were written.īecause the names belonged to this language, and the Aesir have just brought here this language in the north to Norway and Sweden, Denmark and Saxony. In Snorri's prologue states: ' Thus, the language of the Asians became the state language in all these areas. So he can put them on the same level as acknowledged by the church Hebrew, Greek and Latin - the language of scholars of medieval Europe. This language, Old Icelandic Snorri perceives as ennobled by this descent. He is concerned in the Snorra Edda especially to language, the language that once spoke Óðinn and his loud euhemeristischer immigration fable. Snorri it 's not just about writing an origin story of the Norse gods. The anklingenden here euhemeristischen tendencies serve to Snorri, the pre-Christian gods to expose in the Gylfaginning as human rulers: also in that sense deception or deceit in the title of Snorri mythography.

The prologue serves as genealogically connect the mythical narrated episodes of Gylfaginning etymologically with the ancient mythology of the Christian- ecclesiastical Europe meted a high priority. ' ) describes and explains Óðinn and his family in the spirit of euhemeristischen thesis to worldly kings. Thor and Sibil - For the Nordic scholarly prehistory aural affinity of Trór is Sif relevant, Snorri also in the Heimskringla introductory Ynglinga saga represents, in which he immigrant migrating from the East (Asia) Æsir ( Aesir = ' Asia Men Then the prologue of Snorra Edda to the most popular among the nobility in the Middle Ages Trojan fable follows on after the ancestors of the Western and Northern European aristocracy of displaced heroes from Troy, for example, Aeneas descended. They focus on a natural religiosity of cultures, in which also the Nordic ' paganism ' in one supreme God believed as a Supreme Being without these present in a Christian sense. The ideas which prevail here are from the medieval church history as it has represented Isidor of Seville, for example. formalized ) begins with a clear reference to the Old Testament story of creation.

The function of the prologue is to integrate the Edda of Snorri in the medieval, learned Christian worldview.

It is disputed whether the prologue of Snorri Sturluson by Snorra Edda itself was written.

Prose edda prologue