Exam 7: Icelandicnorse: Prose Edda Creation

The overwhelming characteristic of Ginnungagap was its _____________.

Sif is Thor's _____________________.

The Norse counterpart of the Greek concept of Chaos is ______________________.

Gylfi's primary reason for going to Asgard is to ____________________________________________.

The Æsir are a family descending from ____________________.

Snorri places the center of the world in the historical ________________ as a basis for his accounts of the Æsir.

In Snorri's fifth creation account, light was created from ____________.

Baldr is ____________________'s son.

In the fourth of Snorri's creation accounts, a prehuman creature is formed when a ______________ licks a block of ice.

Gylfi was _________________.

Gefjon wins land from Gylfi by having her giant son plough out a gigantic area. Snorri then reports, "But the place where the land had been torn up was afterwards a lake." This is an example of _______________.

According to Third, All-Father's greatest achievement was ________________________________________.

It is ironic that _______________________.

The fact that Snorri presents six different creation stories without much logical connection is an example of _________________.

As Snorri makes a case for Troy as the center of the world and Priam as its greatest king, he says ________________ is Priam's grandson.

The lowest level of hell in the Æsir belief system was called ___________________.

In the sixth account, a man and a woman are created from _____________________.

Asgard was _________________________________________.

According to one of Snorri's creation stories, the world was created from body parts of the frost giant _______________________.

The Æsir chieftains tell Gylfi that the first world was called _____________.