Eric's death seems to be a misunderstanding on Snorri's part due to an influence from the succeeding kings ( see also the other sources below ):

Snorri's interpretation of the 13th century foreshadows 20th century views of Indo-European migration from the east.

Heyerdahl accepted Snorri's story as literal truth, and believed that a chieftain led his people in a migration from the east, westward and northward through Saxony, to Fyn in Denmark, and eventually settling in Sweden.

In 2010 Rudolf Simek, building on an analysis by Lotte Motz, argued that vanir was originally nothing more than a general term for deities like æsir, and that its employment as a distinct group of deities was Snorri's invention, and the Vanir are therefore " a figment of imagination from the 13th to 20th centuries ".

The third mention made of Hliðskjálf is during Snorri's recounting of the wooing of Gerd, quoted by him from Skírnismál.

Scholars have debated as to what extent Snorri's account of Ymir is an attempt to synthesize a coherent narrative for the purpose of the Prose Edda and to what extent Snorri drew from traditional material outside of the corpus that he cites.

Due to his absence in other relevant mythological texts, numerous scholars have argued that Baugi either comes from a source that is not extant today or was an invention of Snorri's, accidental or intentional.

The most popular version of the creation of Mjölnir myth, found in Skáldskaparmál from Snorri's Edda, is as follows.

Snorri's works covers the history of the Norwegian kings from the mythical prehistoric age until the year 1177, with the death of the pretender Eystein Meyla.

They are immediately set upon by a gang of giants from the cave of Geirrod, but Thor and Thjalfi ( Þjálfi ) quickly put them to flight ( although in Snorri's version of the tale Þjálfi is replaced with Loki ).

Tyr, Höd, and Bragi are conspicuously absent from this list, one reason to believe it is not from Snorri's hand.

Snorri's Ynglinga Saga relates that after the giantess Skaði broke off her marriage with Njörd, she " married afterwards Odin, and had many sons by him, of whom one was called Sæming " from whom Jarl Hákon claimed descent.

All skeletons that are likely to be that of Inge are very tall, about two meters in length, suggesting that Snorri's description was accurate.

The Ynglinga saga section of Snorri's Heimskringla and the Eddic poem Ragnarsdrápa tell a legend of how Gylfi was seduced by the goddess Gefjon to give her as much land as she could plow in one night.

Many of the poems are quoted in Snorri's Edda but usually only in bits and pieces.

Snorri's Heimskringla also preserves many poems.

To what extent Snorri's presentation is poetic creation only remains unclear.

The prose introduction to Lokasenna and Snorri's list of kennings state that Ægir is also known as Gymir, who is Gerðr's father, but this is evidently an erroneous interpretation of kennings in which different giant-names are used interchangeably.

The Prose Edda, sometimes referred to as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda is an Icelandic manual of poetics which also contains many mythological stories.

Like Snorri's Hel, she is terrifying to in appearance, black or dark in colour, usually naked, adorned with severed heads or arms or the corpses of children, her lips smeared with blood.

Davidson concludes that, in these examples, " here we have the fierce destructive side of death, with a strong emphasis on its physical horrors, so perhaps we should not assume that the gruesome figure of Hel is wholly Snorri's literary invention.

John Lindow states that most details about Hel, as a figure, are not found outside of Snorri's writing in Gylfaginning, and says that when older skaldic poetry " says that people are ' in ' rather than ' with ' Hel, we are clearly dealing with a place rather than a person, and this is assumed to be the older conception ," that the noun and place Hel likely originally simply meant " grave ," and that " the personification came later.

The composition of the sagas is Snorri's.

The historians of mid-19th century put great trust in the factual truth of Snorri's narrative, as well as other old Norse sagas.

These historians pointed out that Snorri's work had been written several centuries after most of the events it describes.

In Norway, the historian Edvard Bull famously proclaimed that " we have to give up all illusions that Snorri's mighty epic bears any deeper resemblance to what actually happened " in the time it describes.

Sif is introduced in chapter three of the Prologue section of the Prose Edda ; Snorri's euhemerized account of the origins of Viking mythology.

Andy Orchard and Rudolf Simek state that, as Snotra is otherwise unattested outside of the Prose Edda, that Snotra may be an invention of Snorri's.

Andy Orchard comments " Snorri's etymologizing interpretation is scarcely profound, and may imply that he had no access to further material " and notes that references to Vör are otherwise rare.

Snorri's descriptions of Hel in the Prose Edda are not corroborated outside of Baldrs draumar, which does not appear in the original Codex Regius but is a later addition often included with modern editions of the Poetic Edda.

This is explicitly stated only in Snorri's Prose Edda.

R. D. Fulk notes that Snorri's Prose Edda account " conflicts with the poetic version, as the Edda presents a Noah-like figure, while the latter has Bergelmir laid ( lagiðr ) in the lúðr, implying he is an infant, as in the Scyld story.

Baugi is attested to in Skáldskaparmál in Snorri's Prose Edda, and does not appear in other texts.

The young writer seems intimidated by psychological knowledge ; ;

Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in such a way as to conform to his own expectations of the outcome ( i.e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons: ( 1 ) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e.g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ).

seems to contradict the characterization of the true Christian as one who knows ; but to Clement knowledge vanishes only in that is subsumed by the universal love expressed by the Christian in his reverence for his Creator.

He made a few mistakes ; he may well have made others that we cannot detect because he is our sole authority ; when he tried to describe buildings his command of language was usually inadequate ; he is often confused and obscure, though this may be as much his printer's fault as his own ; his prose is frequently difficult to read and painful to translate ; but he seems to us to be free from the dishonesty of the traveller who tries to exaggerate his own knowledge, importance, or courage.

The belief that beings with knowledge ( God / s, angels & spirits ) preceded insentient matter seems to suggest that an experiencing subject is a necessary reality.

The book is dedicated to a Macrinus, who may have been the emperor who reigned 217-218, but that name was not uncommon, and it seems more likely he was simply a young man with a thirst for universal knowledge, which the book was compiled to satisfy.

Apart from sexually laced conversation, much seems to revolve around coding and building within the world, which requires knowledge of that skill in order to understand.

But it seems at least obvious that a divine infinite being conceived of as necessary infinitely knowledgeable would also know how, for example, a finite person dying feels like as He would have access to all knowledge including the obvious experiences of the dying human.

It seems likely that the topographical tables in books 2 – 7 are cumulative texts – texts which were altered and added to as new knowledge became available in the centuries after Ptolemy ( Bagrow 1945 ).

In it he writes of Isis, describing her as: " a goddess exceptionally wise and a lover of wisdom, to whom, as her name at least seems to indicate, knowledge and understanding are in the highest degree appropriate ..." and that the statue of Athena ( Plutarch says " whom they believe to be Isis ") in Sais carried the inscription " I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered.

Hume took it in an especially skeptical direction, proposing that there could be no possibility of deducing relationships of cause and effect, and therefore no knowledge is based on reasoning alone, even if it seems otherwise.

At times, the preface ( when read with the knowledge of the relationship between Paulhan and the author ), seems to be a continuation of the conversation between them.

A fiftieth anniversary pamphlet published by the Music Department in 1973 says that OUP had " no knowledge of the music trade, no representative to sell to music shops, and −− it seems −− no awareness that sheet music was in any way a different commodity from books.

this cinema seems to be constituted as a new subject of knowledge, which it-self builds and develops.

" It is general knowledge that the French love lyrics, and it seems as though no other European national is as committed to the proliferation of its mother tongue.

He also seems to have possessed knowledge of the arteries, described as ' channels ' by Dwivedi & Dwivedi ( 2007 ).

The debt however was mutual and Bacchylides borrowed from tragedy for some of his effects – thus Ode 16, with its myth of Deianeira, seems to assume audience knowledge of Sophocles's play, Women of Trachis, and Ode 18 echoes three plays – Aeschylus's Persians and Suppliants and Sophocles's Oedipus Rex.

However, as far as Hortensio should be concerned, Lucentio has denounced Bianca ( in Act 4, Scene 2, Tranio ( disguised as Lucentio ) agreed with Hortensio that neither of them would pursue Bianca, because she obviously loved Cambio ), and as such, his knowledge of the marriage of who he supposes to be Lucentio and Bianca makes no sense, and again seems to suggest some careless editing on Shakespeare's part.

A monastery-centred establishment seems to have grown up in sixth-century Britain, though our knowledge of this period there is limited.

The notion that Deichtine would have no knowledge of her mother's people seems highly implausible.

Today, Posidonius seems to be recognized as having had an inquiring and wide-ranging mind, not entirely original, but with a breadth of view that connected, in accordance with his underlying Stoic philosophy, all things and their causes and all knowledge into an overarching, unified world view.

Iah also seems to have assumed the lunar aspect of Thoth, god of knowledge, writing and calculation ; the segments of the moon were used as fractional symbols in writing.

The highest knowledge in log building seems to have had a sacred purpose with wide continental circulation and therefore in many places requires distinction from the more regionally rooted vernacular one.

His only knowledge of humans seems to come from television advertisements, although his skills as a physician generally vary: in " Put Your Head on My Shoulders " he manages to successfully transplant Fry's head onto Amy's body after Fry's body incurs massive trauma in a vehicular accident that requires extensive repair, but in Into the Wild Green Yonder he incorrectly declares Fry dead only for him to wake up a few seconds later.