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Monday, March 17, 2008

Prologue to Prose Edda

What striked me as most significant in this prologue was the overview of how earth was populated in a Christian sense and then how the people changed from Christian beliefs and began to worship accomplished men like Thor and Odin as if they were gods. I also found it interesting that Odin was a descendent of Thor and that they both were greedy for land, power, and wealth, but still were held like gods and were praised. It was also interesting that Odin designated different lands for each of his sons to rule over and he established chieftains like those in Troy and also set up twelve head-men to be doomsmen over the people in order to judge the laws of the land. Last, I thought it significant that the world was said to be split up into three parts: Africa, Europa, and Asia.

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