Quotes About Gylfaginning

It is not difficult to imagine that Gylfaginning represents the first encounter between Gylfi and the Asia-men and that Gylfi's delusion was in accepting that the stories told to him by Hár, Jafnhár, and Thridi were about gods. In other words, it is easy to believe that Snorri wishes us to believe that Gylfi's meeting with the æsir contributed to their euhemerization.

In Gylfaginning Snorri uses and expands on these sources, adding, among other things, that the einherjar are "all those men who have fallen in battle since the beginning of the world." He also sends the einherjar out against the forces of chaos at the last battle but gives no details of their fights and fates.