THE
EDDA,
OR,
ANCIENT ICELANDIC
MYTHOLOGY.
The Vision of Gylfe: and Illusions of Har.
FORMERLY in Sweden reigned a king named Gylfe, who was famous for his wisdom and skill in magic. He beheld, with astonishment, the great respect which all his people shewed to the New-comers from Asia; and was at a loss whether to attribute the success of these strangers to the superiority of their natural abilities, or to any divine power resident in them. To be satisfied in this particular, he resolved to go to Asgard (a), disguised under the appearance of an old man of ordinary rank. But the Asiatics[1] were too
- ↑ The original is Æsirnir, (Asæ) which signifies either Gods or Asiatics. T.
