"When these tidings come to pass, then shall Heimdallr rise up and blow mightily in the Gjallar-Horn, and awaken all the gods;”
(Gylfaginning)
🎨 Emil Doepler
#wyrdwednesday
(Gylfaginning)
🎨 Emil Doepler
#wyrdwednesday
July 29, 2026 at 10:00 AM
"When these tidings come to pass, then shall Heimdallr rise up and blow mightily in the Gjallar-Horn, and awaken all the gods;”
(Gylfaginning)
🎨 Emil Doepler
#wyrdwednesday
(Gylfaginning)
🎨 Emil Doepler
#wyrdwednesday
me entering the group chat:
gylfaginning in here or what?
gylfaginning in here or what?
![Gylfaginning (Old Norse: 'The Beguiling of Gylfi' or 'The Deluding of Gylfi';[1][2] 13th century Old Norse pronunciation [ˈɟʏlvaˌɟɪnːɪŋɡ]) is the first main part of the 13th-century Prose Edda, after the initial Prologue. The Gylfaginning takes the form of a dialogue between a Swedish King Gylfi and three men on thrones in Asgard called High, Just-As-High, and Third. Gylfi asks many questions of the three men on the history and future of the Æsir. The creation and eventual destruction of the world are described, as are many other aspects of Norse mythology. While the Gylfaginning never makes it explicit, the three are often presumed to be guises of Odin.
The second part of the Prose Edda is the Skáldskaparmál and the third Háttatal. The work is often attributed to or considered to have been compiled by Snorri Sturluson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7exyjeparqiodrcujgakqo2x/bafkreigzjxl33bqrp5umyqhc3u4rm7agwjx4ldnz5ydnrh5begdifp4qdm)
October 3, 2026 at 6:31 AM
me entering the group chat:
gylfaginning in here or what?
gylfaginning in here or what?
manifesting the final zone of evercold is we fall unwittingly into the antagonist’s machinations and there’s a dimensional fusion gone wrong and it looks like gylfaginning primordial chaos
October 4, 2026 at 5:46 AM
manifesting the final zone of evercold is we fall unwittingly into the antagonist’s machinations and there’s a dimensional fusion gone wrong and it looks like gylfaginning primordial chaos
Heimdall possesses extraordinary hearing in Norse mythology. Gylfaginning says he can hear grass growing on the earth and wool growing on sheep. Mythology imagined hearing so acute that even processes humans consider completely silent become audible. #MythologyMonday
September 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Heimdall possesses extraordinary hearing in Norse mythology. Gylfaginning says he can hear grass growing on the earth and wool growing on sheep. Mythology imagined hearing so acute that even processes humans consider completely silent become audible. #MythologyMonday
In the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, @mathjones.bsky.social has fun rewriting the opening of the Gylfaginning (part of the PROSE Edda!) as Viking verse.
alliteration.net/poetry/the-o... #alliterion #poetry #Norse #alliterative #Mythology #Viking #folklore #medievalsky #poetrylovers
alliteration.net/poetry/the-o... #alliterion #poetry #Norse #alliterative #Mythology #Viking #folklore #medievalsky #poetrylovers
The Opening of the Gylfaginning, by Math Jones
... His name is All-Father, / but others he's had / in the tongue of the Old-yard, / twelve in number ...
alliteration.net
October 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
In the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, @mathjones.bsky.social has fun rewriting the opening of the Gylfaginning (part of the PROSE Edda!) as Viking verse.
alliteration.net/poetry/the-o... #alliterion #poetry #Norse #alliterative #Mythology #Viking #folklore #medievalsky #poetrylovers
alliteration.net/poetry/the-o... #alliterion #poetry #Norse #alliterative #Mythology #Viking #folklore #medievalsky #poetrylovers
"In 1220, Snorri released this, the Edda, his most accomplished work. I think his undisputed masterpiece is Gylfaginning, a text so enthralling that most people probably don't notice the subtext."
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January 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"In 1220, Snorri released this, the Edda, his most accomplished work. I think his undisputed masterpiece is Gylfaginning, a text so enthralling that most people probably don't notice the subtext."
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In den nordischen Legenden war Nidhogg (oder Nidhoggr) die erste der Schlangen oder Drachen, die unter dem Weltenbaum namens Yggdrasil lebten.
Laut dem Abschnitt Gylfaginning der Edda (Handbuch der traditionellen skandinavischen Dichtung), geschrieben vom
Laut dem Abschnitt Gylfaginning der Edda (Handbuch der traditionellen skandinavischen Dichtung), geschrieben vom
November 6, 2024 at 7:50 PM
In den nordischen Legenden war Nidhogg (oder Nidhoggr) die erste der Schlangen oder Drachen, die unter dem Weltenbaum namens Yggdrasil lebten.
Laut dem Abschnitt Gylfaginning der Edda (Handbuch der traditionellen skandinavischen Dichtung), geschrieben vom
Laut dem Abschnitt Gylfaginning der Edda (Handbuch der traditionellen skandinavischen Dichtung), geschrieben vom
"Sleeping in the Jotunn’s glove from Gylfaginning" (Helena Rosova)
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
"Sleeping in the Jotunn’s glove from Gylfaginning" (Helena Rosova)
#HeathenSky
A curious project, perhaps.
To turn Snorri's Prose Edda, written to save the poetics of Medieval Iceland, into traditional alliterative verse; continuing his project maybe?
Part one of Gylfaginning in Verse is here, free to stream, for now.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
A curious project, perhaps.
To turn Snorri's Prose Edda, written to save the poetics of Medieval Iceland, into traditional alliterative verse; continuing his project maybe?
Part one of Gylfaginning in Verse is here, free to stream, for now.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
Gylfaginning in Verse (Pt. 1, of 9 forthcoming), by Math Jones
1 track album
mathjones.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
#HeathenSky
A curious project, perhaps.
To turn Snorri's Prose Edda, written to save the poetics of Medieval Iceland, into traditional alliterative verse; continuing his project maybe?
Part one of Gylfaginning in Verse is here, free to stream, for now.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
A curious project, perhaps.
To turn Snorri's Prose Edda, written to save the poetics of Medieval Iceland, into traditional alliterative verse; continuing his project maybe?
Part one of Gylfaginning in Verse is here, free to stream, for now.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
“Brothers shall strive | and slaughter each other;
Own sisters' children | shall sin together;
Ill days among men, | many a whoredom:
An axe-age, a sword-age, | shields shall be cloven;
A wind-age, a wolf-age, | ere the world totters.”
(Gylfaginning)
🎨 Valin Mattheis
#FolkyFriday
Own sisters' children | shall sin together;
Ill days among men, | many a whoredom:
An axe-age, a sword-age, | shields shall be cloven;
A wind-age, a wolf-age, | ere the world totters.”
(Gylfaginning)
🎨 Valin Mattheis
#FolkyFriday
December 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
“Brothers shall strive | and slaughter each other;
Own sisters' children | shall sin together;
Ill days among men, | many a whoredom:
An axe-age, a sword-age, | shields shall be cloven;
A wind-age, a wolf-age, | ere the world totters.”
(Gylfaginning)
🎨 Valin Mattheis
#FolkyFriday
Own sisters' children | shall sin together;
Ill days among men, | many a whoredom:
An axe-age, a sword-age, | shields shall be cloven;
A wind-age, a wolf-age, | ere the world totters.”
(Gylfaginning)
🎨 Valin Mattheis
#FolkyFriday
Thor Wrestling with Old Age
Sculpture by Einar Jónsson
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekKforKinetic
#EastCoastKin
Sculpture by Einar Jónsson
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekKforKinetic
#EastCoastKin
March 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Thor Wrestling with Old Age
Sculpture by Einar Jónsson
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekKforKinetic
#EastCoastKin
Sculpture by Einar Jónsson
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekKforKinetic
#EastCoastKin
#HeathenSky #PoetrySky
Just published on bandcamp:
Gylfaginning in Verse
A recasting of Snorri's Prose Edda, source for Old Norse myth, in alliterative verse.
Free to listen to, for now.
Also, Tales of Godhome, by Thorskegga Thorn, pt 1.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
Just published on bandcamp:
Gylfaginning in Verse
A recasting of Snorri's Prose Edda, source for Old Norse myth, in alliterative verse.
Free to listen to, for now.
Also, Tales of Godhome, by Thorskegga Thorn, pt 1.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
Gylfaginning in Verse, by Written & read by Math Jones, from a text by Snorri Sturluson
10 track album
mathjones.bandcamp.com
February 19, 2026 at 12:09 PM
#HeathenSky #PoetrySky
Just published on bandcamp:
Gylfaginning in Verse
A recasting of Snorri's Prose Edda, source for Old Norse myth, in alliterative verse.
Free to listen to, for now.
Also, Tales of Godhome, by Thorskegga Thorn, pt 1.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
Just published on bandcamp:
Gylfaginning in Verse
A recasting of Snorri's Prose Edda, source for Old Norse myth, in alliterative verse.
Free to listen to, for now.
Also, Tales of Godhome, by Thorskegga Thorn, pt 1.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
#RandomCardIWorkedOn, November 16, 2024: Replicating Ring.
Kaldheim was inspired by Norse mythology. The Gylfaginning describes a ring, Draupnir, given to Odin by the dwarves. "This quality attended it: that every ninth night there fell from it eight gold rings of equal weight." #WotCstaff
Kaldheim was inspired by Norse mythology. The Gylfaginning describes a ring, Draupnir, given to Odin by the dwarves. "This quality attended it: that every ninth night there fell from it eight gold rings of equal weight." #WotCstaff
November 16, 2024 at 8:47 PM
#RandomCardIWorkedOn, November 16, 2024: Replicating Ring.
Kaldheim was inspired by Norse mythology. The Gylfaginning describes a ring, Draupnir, given to Odin by the dwarves. "This quality attended it: that every ninth night there fell from it eight gold rings of equal weight." #WotCstaff
Kaldheim was inspired by Norse mythology. The Gylfaginning describes a ring, Draupnir, given to Odin by the dwarves. "This quality attended it: that every ninth night there fell from it eight gold rings of equal weight." #WotCstaff
The fact that Thor's skirts aren't full length, and go only to his knees, is important. The knee-length Norse skirt, the serkr, was not a formal garment, and certainly not something you'd wear to a wedding.
There's a famous example of one, worn by the troll-wife Hyrrokin in the Gylfaginning.
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There's a famous example of one, worn by the troll-wife Hyrrokin in the Gylfaginning.
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April 9, 2024 at 5:42 PM
The fact that Thor's skirts aren't full length, and go only to his knees, is important. The knee-length Norse skirt, the serkr, was not a formal garment, and certainly not something you'd wear to a wedding.
There's a famous example of one, worn by the troll-wife Hyrrokin in the Gylfaginning.
11/
There's a famous example of one, worn by the troll-wife Hyrrokin in the Gylfaginning.
11/
I was reading up on mythological dwarfs for lore inspiration and came across this hilariously unexplained detail.
January 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I was reading up on mythological dwarfs for lore inspiration and came across this hilariously unexplained detail.
"In Asgard the wolf
was weaned and fed
only by God;
the others were fearful.
But words on the wind,
and the wolf's thriving,
had them working a plan
to ward off harm."
Pt. 4 of 'Gylfaginning in Verse' tells of the gods, & of wolf's binding.
#PaganSky
#PoetrySky
on.soundcloud.com/RPLL9
was weaned and fed
only by God;
the others were fearful.
But words on the wind,
and the wolf's thriving,
had them working a plan
to ward off harm."
Pt. 4 of 'Gylfaginning in Verse' tells of the gods, & of wolf's binding.
#PaganSky
#PoetrySky
on.soundcloud.com/RPLL9
January 20, 2024 at 9:02 PM
"In Asgard the wolf
was weaned and fed
only by God;
the others were fearful.
But words on the wind,
and the wolf's thriving,
had them working a plan
to ward off harm."
Pt. 4 of 'Gylfaginning in Verse' tells of the gods, & of wolf's binding.
#PaganSky
#PoetrySky
on.soundcloud.com/RPLL9
was weaned and fed
only by God;
the others were fearful.
But words on the wind,
and the wolf's thriving,
had them working a plan
to ward off harm."
Pt. 4 of 'Gylfaginning in Verse' tells of the gods, & of wolf's binding.
#PaganSky
#PoetrySky
on.soundcloud.com/RPLL9
@mathjones.bsky.social is working on an alliterative verse translation of the Prose Edda -- a fun concept! ...
Here's his version of the opening of the Gylfaginning ...
alliteration.net/poetry/the-opening-of-the-gylfaginning/
Here's his version of the opening of the Gylfaginning ...
alliteration.net/poetry/the-opening-of-the-gylfaginning/
The Opening of the Gylfaginning, by Math Jones
... His name is All-Father, / but others he's had / in the tongue of the Old-yard, / twelve in number ...
alliteration.net
February 4, 2026 at 1:16 PM
@mathjones.bsky.social is working on an alliterative verse translation of the Prose Edda -- a fun concept! ...
Here's his version of the opening of the Gylfaginning ...
alliteration.net/poetry/the-opening-of-the-gylfaginning/
Here's his version of the opening of the Gylfaginning ...
alliteration.net/poetry/the-opening-of-the-gylfaginning/
"Blood for the seas,
bones into rock,
busted teeth
for the tumbling scree -"
"The sea!" (Just-as)
"The giant's blood
they made into sea
that encircles it all!"
Part 2 of Gylfaginning, a #poetry version of the Prose Edda, on Soundcloud.
Listen here (pt 1 below):
on.soundcloud.com/cH4AZ
bones into rock,
busted teeth
for the tumbling scree -"
"The sea!" (Just-as)
"The giant's blood
they made into sea
that encircles it all!"
Part 2 of Gylfaginning, a #poetry version of the Prose Edda, on Soundcloud.
Listen here (pt 1 below):
on.soundcloud.com/cH4AZ
December 8, 2023 at 7:15 PM
"Blood for the seas,
bones into rock,
busted teeth
for the tumbling scree -"
"The sea!" (Just-as)
"The giant's blood
they made into sea
that encircles it all!"
Part 2 of Gylfaginning, a #poetry version of the Prose Edda, on Soundcloud.
Listen here (pt 1 below):
on.soundcloud.com/cH4AZ
bones into rock,
busted teeth
for the tumbling scree -"
"The sea!" (Just-as)
"The giant's blood
they made into sea
that encircles it all!"
Part 2 of Gylfaginning, a #poetry version of the Prose Edda, on Soundcloud.
Listen here (pt 1 below):
on.soundcloud.com/cH4AZ
@mathjones.bsky.social has some cool Norse-style poetic takes on pieces of the Prose Edda! Check out, for instance,his opening for the Gylfaginning ... might help clear up a lot of those names ...
alliteration.net/poetry/the-o...
alliteration.net/poetry/the-o...
The Opening of the Gylfaginning, by Math Jones
... His name is All-Father, / but others he's had / in the tongue of the Old-yard, / twelve in number ...
alliteration.net
December 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
@mathjones.bsky.social has some cool Norse-style poetic takes on pieces of the Prose Edda! Check out, for instance,his opening for the Gylfaginning ... might help clear up a lot of those names ...
alliteration.net/poetry/the-o...
alliteration.net/poetry/the-o...
Eighth is Loving:
look to her,
if despairing of love.
She spins permission
from All-father & Beloved,
that obstacles to love,
bans & forbidings,
are blown away.
Pt. 5 of Gylfaginning in Verse tells of goddesses, including this verse for Lofn.
#PaganSky
#PoetrySky
on.soundcloud.com/vyuQK
look to her,
if despairing of love.
She spins permission
from All-father & Beloved,
that obstacles to love,
bans & forbidings,
are blown away.
Pt. 5 of Gylfaginning in Verse tells of goddesses, including this verse for Lofn.
#PaganSky
#PoetrySky
on.soundcloud.com/vyuQK
February 1, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Eighth is Loving:
look to her,
if despairing of love.
She spins permission
from All-father & Beloved,
that obstacles to love,
bans & forbidings,
are blown away.
Pt. 5 of Gylfaginning in Verse tells of goddesses, including this verse for Lofn.
#PaganSky
#PoetrySky
on.soundcloud.com/vyuQK
look to her,
if despairing of love.
She spins permission
from All-father & Beloved,
that obstacles to love,
bans & forbidings,
are blown away.
Pt. 5 of Gylfaginning in Verse tells of goddesses, including this verse for Lofn.
#PaganSky
#PoetrySky
on.soundcloud.com/vyuQK
Folkwang ist die neunte: da hat Freyja Gewalt
Die Sitze zu ordnen im Saal.
Der Walstatt Hälfte hat sie täglich zu wählen;
Odhin hat die andre Hälfte.
(Gylfaginning 24, Simrock-Übersetzung)
Die Sitze zu ordnen im Saal.
Der Walstatt Hälfte hat sie täglich zu wählen;
Odhin hat die andre Hälfte.
(Gylfaginning 24, Simrock-Übersetzung)
January 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Folkwang ist die neunte: da hat Freyja Gewalt
Die Sitze zu ordnen im Saal.
Der Walstatt Hälfte hat sie täglich zu wählen;
Odhin hat die andre Hälfte.
(Gylfaginning 24, Simrock-Übersetzung)
Die Sitze zu ordnen im Saal.
Der Walstatt Hälfte hat sie täglich zu wählen;
Odhin hat die andre Hälfte.
(Gylfaginning 24, Simrock-Übersetzung)
Before I forget, let me mention one more Math Jones piece in the current issue: his "Opening of the Gylfaginning", part of the Prose Edda paraphrased in Norse style alliterative verse.
alliteration.net/poetry/the-o...
alliteration.net/poetry/the-o...
The Opening of the Gylfaginning, by Math Jones
... His name is All-Father, / but others he's had / in the tongue of the Old-yard, / twelve in number ...
alliteration.net
October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Before I forget, let me mention one more Math Jones piece in the current issue: his "Opening of the Gylfaginning", part of the Prose Edda paraphrased in Norse style alliterative verse.
alliteration.net/poetry/the-o...
alliteration.net/poetry/the-o...
Snorri Sturluson's "The Prose Edda", specifically "Gylfaginning (The Deluding of Gylfi)", part 14 "Asgard and the Origin of the Dwarves". My English translation has a lot fewer accents and curly bits.
December 12, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Snorri Sturluson's "The Prose Edda", specifically "Gylfaginning (The Deluding of Gylfi)", part 14 "Asgard and the Origin of the Dwarves". My English translation has a lot fewer accents and curly bits.
I don't know offhand if there's a good snappy genre name for "works like Paradise Lost and Gylfaginning which attempt to distill myths into a cohesive, literary narrative" but the Ainulindale, at least to me, is clearly aiming at being a "synthetic" version of that.
July 27, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I don't know offhand if there's a good snappy genre name for "works like Paradise Lost and Gylfaginning which attempt to distill myths into a cohesive, literary narrative" but the Ainulindale, at least to me, is clearly aiming at being a "synthetic" version of that.