page_title: Skáldskaparmál
hierarchical_section_title: Skáldskaparmál
caption_attribution_description: Near a wood, the goddess Sif rests her head on a stump while the half-deity Loki lurks behind, blade in hand. Loki holds the blade, presumably, to cut Sif's hair per the myth recounted in the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál.
context_page_description: Skáldskaparmál is the second part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.
  It is a dialogue between Ægir, the divine personification of the sea, and Bragi, the god of poetry, in which both Norse mythology and discourse on the nature of poetry are intertwined. The origin of a number of kennings is given; then Bragi delivers a systematic list of kennings for various people, places and things. He then goes on to discuss poetic language in some detail, in particular heiti, the concept of poetical words which are non-periphrastic, and again systematises these. This in a way forms an early form of poetic thesaurus.
context_section_description: Skáldskaparmál (Old Norse: 'The Language of Poetry'; c. 50,000 words; [ˈskaldskaparˌmɒːl]; [ˈskaultskaparˌmauːl]) is the second part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.
  It is a dialogue between Ægir, the divine personification of the sea, and Bragi, the god of poetry, in which both Norse mythology and discourse on the nature of poetry are intertwined. The origin of a number of kennings is given; then Bragi delivers a systematic list of kennings for various people, places and things. He then goes on to discuss poetic language in some detail, in particular heiti, the concept of poetical words which are non-periphrastic (like steed for horse), and again systematises these. This in a way forms an early form of poetic thesaurus.
caption: Near a wood, the goddess Sif rests her head on a stump while the half-deity Loki lurks behind, blade in hand. Loki intends to cut Sif's hair per a myth recounted in Skáldskaparmál.
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