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Finnur Jónsson's 1907 edition and Guðni Jónsson's 1935 transcription use "Hárr" and "Jafnhárr" (with two r's). Anthony
Faulkes' 1982 edition uses "Hár" and "Jafnhár". The Codex Wormianus manuscript spells the name Háár; the Codex Regius manuscript spells it Har, but often abbreviates it to just H.
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he has chosen) and the three men as they engage in something of a contest of wisdom; Gylfi asks detailed questions of the affairs of the Æsir, and the three respond with stories. At the very end, the three suddenly vanish along with the Hall. Gylfi returns to Sweden to tell tales of what he has
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He saw three thrones, each one higher than the other. Three men sat there, one in each seat. He asked the name of their ruler. The man guiding him replied that the king was in the lowest of the high seats; he was called High. Next came the one called Just-as-High, while the one highest up is
261:, compiler of the work. Lindow notes that "Gangleri" is also a name of Odin, but that neither side of the conversation or events quite matches another story of Odin. If Snorri was either responsible for or approved of the euhemerization account in the
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The sea-thread's father set out to urge the feller of flight-ledge-gods' life-net from home. Lopt was proficient at lying. The not very trustworthy trier of the mind of war-thunder-Gaut said that green paths led to
Geirrod's wall-steed .
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The mind-tough Thor let vulture-way urge him only a little time to go—they were eager to crush Thorn's kin —when Idi's yard-visitor , mightier than White Sea Scots , set out once from Third's to the seat of Ymsi's kind .
181:. Odin is both the wisest of the Æsir, and the king of the Æsir if the initial meeting at the illusory Great Hall saying Gangleri will be taken to the king is taken at face value. More directly, as
146:) for him. Gylfi finds a great hall and inquires as to its owner; he is told that the king owns the hall, and is offered a chance to meet him. Upon entering the throne room, he finds the three men:
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Allfather because he is father of all the gods. He is also called Father of the Slain, because all those that fall in battle are the sons of his adoption; for them he appoints
201:, and they are then called Champions. He is also called God of the Hanged, God of Gods, God of Cargoes; and he has also been named in many more ways, after he had come to King Geirrödr:
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that conflates the Norse Æsir with Greco-Asian refugees from the fall of Troy, then the three may have merely been descendants of such a claimed migration in-setting.
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Bileygr, Báleygr, Bölverkr, Fjölnir, Grímnir, Glapsvidr, Fjölsvidr.
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Gangleri, Herjann, Hjálmberi;
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Vakr, Skilfingr, Váfudr, Hroptatýr, Gautr, Veratýr."
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Gangleri (Gylfi's
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324:('the One-eyed Hero'), itself a
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363:('one-eyed'), with regular
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156:Jesse Byock translation,
781:(1977 ed.). Brill.
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291:Proto-Norse
255:John Lindow
183:Jesse Byock
160:, Chapter 2
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