The Prose; Or Younger Edda Commonly Ascribed to Snorri Sturluson Volume 11

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... GEFIUN'S PLOUGHING. King Gylfi ruled in that land which now hight Svipiod, of him it is said that he gave a wayfaring woman, as the meed of the passtime she made him. a ploughland in his realm, which four oxen could ear up in a day and a night. But that woman was one of the Asa stock, she is named Gefiun, she took four oxen from the north out of Jotunheimj but they were the sons of a Giant and her, and set them before a plough. But the plough went so hard and deep that it tore up the land, and the oxen drew that land out to sea and westward, and stood still in a certain sound. There set Gefiun the land, and gave it a name and called it Saelund. And the room whence the land had gone up became afterward water, which is now called The Water (lavgrinn) in Svipiod; and the bays in the lake lie just as the headlands in Saelund. So saith bard Bragi the old. "Gefiun drew from Gylfi Four heads and eight glad in deep-stored goods, brow-moons bore the oxen, so that from the race-reek as they went with the wide it steamed, Denmark's swelling; reft field of the dear isle." GYLFFS MOCKING. Jing Gylfi was a man wise and skilled in spells, he wondered much that the Asafolk was so cunning that all things went after their will, (and) he thought to himself whether that might be from their own nature, or because of the mighty Gods whom they worshipped. He began his journey to Asgard and went stealthily, and took on him an old man's likeness, and hid himself so. But the Asa were wiser than he in that they had spaedom, and they saw his journey before he came, and made ready against him false shows. Now when he was come into the burg then saw he there a hall so high that he was scarce able to see over it, it's roof was laid with gilded shields as it were with...