Editing Prose Edda (section)

===''Skáldskaparmál''===
[[Image:Treated NKS haustlong.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.13|[[Thjazi]] and [[Loki]]. Beginning of the myth of the abduction of [[Iðunn]], attested in ''Skáldskaparmál''. Manuscript NKS 1867 4to (Iceland, 1760), Copenhagen, Royal Library]]
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''Skáldskaparmál'' (Old Icelandic 'the language of poetry'<ref name="FAULKES-1982-59">Faulkes (1982: 59).</ref>) is the third section of ''Edda'', and consists of a dialogue between [[Ægir]], a [[jötunn]] who is one of various personifications of the sea, and [[Bragi]], a [[skald]]ic god, in which both Norse mythology and discourse on the nature of poetry are intertwined. The origin of a number of kennings are given and Bragi then delivers a systematic [[list of kennings]] for various people, places, and things. Bragi then goes on to discuss poetic language in some detail, in particular ''[[heiti]]'', the concept of poetical words which are non-periphrastic, for example "steed" for "horse", and again systematises these. This section contains numerous quotes from skaldic poetry.