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511: 36: 252:"Odin had second sight, and his wife also; and from their foreknowledge he found that his name should be exalted in the northern part of the world and glorified above the fame of all other kings. Therefore, he made ready to journey out of Tyrkland They made no end to their journeying till they were come north into the land that is now called Saxland" 181:, Anthony Faulkes wrote that "undoubtedly one of the motives for including the prologue, and maybe the chief reason for the use of the frame device itself, was to avoid the criticism that his stories were dangerous to orthodoxy". Rather than pagan gods, the figures of Norse legend are refashioned as human figures, if noble and powerful ones. 382:. These notes omitted the descent from Adam given Scef in the Anglian collection, freeing the prologue author to derive his Sescef from Thor and hence Priam. The names interposed are all associated with Thor: Lóriði, Einridi, Vingethor and Vingener derive from alternative names for Thor, while Móda and Magi are his sons 368:, explaining that the original names of the Æsir were better preserved in England. The specific form that the names take as well as retained errors in the ancestry of Odin indicate a source closely related to Anglian collection manuscript T. The prologue's Sescef matches this manuscript's 224:. At the age of 12, Thor slew his foster father. He then traveled the lands accomplishing mighty deeds, defeating beasts, giants, and a mighty dragon. In the North, he married a beautiful, golden-haired prophetess named Sibil, identified with 386:. the prologue author emulated the Anglo-Saxon pedigrees that converging on Woden, making the Scandinavian pedigrees converge on Odin by turning their eponymous founders, Yngvi of the Ynglings and Skjöldr of the Skjöldungs, into 372:- 'this Scef', and he appears to have had used a set of genealogical notes made from the Anglian collection manuscript and brought to Iceland, where they would serve as the basis for his expanded account in the 515: 390:. In so doing, he creates a duplicate of Skjaldun, intermediate between Seskef and Odin in the portion of the pedigree derived from the Anglo-Saxon source, and representing the same 335:
concludes in a linguistic remark, observing that the Æsir when they came to the north, spread out until their language was the native language over all these lands.
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to cleanse this world, and that both evil and wisdom have increased since. There are then some poetic musings on the cyclical nature of nature, man, and animals.
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Faulkes, Anthony. "The Genealogies and Regnal Lists in a Manuscript in Resen's Library",
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Faulkes, Anthony (1985). "Pagan Sympathy: Attitudes to Heathendom in the Prologue to
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Faulkes, Anthony. "The Earliest Icelandic Genealogies and Regnal Lists,
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in Anglo-Saxon tradition, and explicitly gives Odin's original name as
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dynasty. Finally, Odin went on to Norway, where he established his son
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Sjötíu ritgerðir helgaðar Jakobi Benediktssyni 20. júlí 1977
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were the first humans, that as evil increased God sent the
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Lóriði, Einridi, Vingethor, Vingener, Móda, Magi,
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The next section includes a genealogy that begins with
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Finally, the son of Fríallaf was "Vóden, whom we call
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