Deck 7: Icelandicnorse: Prose Edda Creation

Question 1

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

A) rationalization
B) syntactical composition
C) parataxis
D) immanence

Answer 1

C

Question 2

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.

A) Odin
B) Thor
C) Baldr
D) Loki

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Gylfi was _________________.

A) an Æsir king
B) a Swedish king
C) another name for Snorri
D) a son of Odin

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The Æsir are a family descending from ____________________.

A) Odin
B) ancient Turks
C) Gylfi
D) Gangleri

Question 5

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 _______________.

A) exaggeration
B) cosmological insight provided by myth
C) paratactic writing
D) aetiological insight provided by myth

Question 6

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

A) get back the land that the Æsir woman Gefjon had won from him
B) find his long-lost son
C) see if worshipping the Æsir gods makes people strong in body and mind
D) conquer the Æsir and become strong like them

Question 7

It is ironic that _______________________.

A) the Æsir chieftain on the lowest stool is called High One
B) the Æsir chieftains are all kings
C) Gylfi gives them a false name
D) the Æsir chieftains are sitting on chairs of different heights

Question 8

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

A) creating heaven and earth
B) living "for ever and ever"
C) ruling "over the whole of his kingdom"
D) creating man and giving him "a soul which will live and never die"

Question 9

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

A) Niflheim
B) Muspel
C) Asgard
D) Troy

Question 10

The overwhelming characteristic of Ginnungagap was its _____________.

A) rain
B) fire
C) grass
D) ice

Question 11

Ymir was formed ________________.

A) from melting ice
B) by All-Father
C) after the Æsir
D) in Niflheim

Question 12

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

A) Ymir's brains
B) Ymir's skull
C) burning embers blown out of Muspel
D) All-Father

Question 13

Asgard was _________________________________________.

A) made from Ymir's eyebrows
B) the area given to Ask and Embla
C) guarded by a serpent
D) the fortress of the gods

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

Sif is Thor's _____________________.

Question 17

Baldr is ____________________'s son.

Question 18

According to Snorri, Frigg is ___________________'s wife.

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

In the fifth creation account, Ymir's blood becomes ________________________.

Question 23

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