The Prose Edda is Sturluson’s attempt to create a guide a richly detailed guide to the oldest and earliest examples of Scandinavian verse and myth. In the wake of this threat of the loss of knowledge that had the potential to become permanent, Snorri Sturluson took upon himself the weighty of job of preserving nothing less than an entire cultural legacy on the verge of extinction. Many traditional literary works as well as glossaries useful for translating them starting to disappear. By the 1100s, traditional Norse and Scandinavian sagas composed in their native languages were coming more and more under the suspicious eye of Catholic Church. The rise of Christianity from a small pack of wandering nonconformists to worldwide influence has not been kind to the literary traditions of cultures it gobbled up in its determined trek up through Europe in the first millennia. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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