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 smith hero Völundr is identified as ' Ruler of Elves ' ( vísi álfa ) and ' One among the Elven Folk ' ( álfa ljóði ), in the poem Völundarkviða, whose later prose introduction also identifies him as the son of a king of ' Finnar ', an Arctic people respected for their shamanic magic ( most likely, the sami ).

Excellent introduction to the scope of Shaw's prose.

The poem begins with a prose introduction detailing that Ægir, a figure associated with the sea, is hosting a feast in his hall for a number of the gods and elves.

( According to the prose introduction to the poem Tyr is now one-handed from having his arm bitten off by Loki's son Fenrir while Fenrir was bound.

Byggvir ( referred to in the prose introduction to the poem as a servant of Freyr ) says that if he had as noble a lineage and as an honorable a seat as Freyr, he would grind down Loki, and make all of his limbs lame.

Beyla ( referred to in the prose introduction to the poem as a servant of Freyr ) says that all of the mountains are shaking, that she thinks Thor must be on his way home, and when Thor arrives he will bring peace to those that quarrel there.

In the prose introduction to the poem Skírnismál, Freyr is mentioned as the son of Njörðr, and stanza 2 cites the goddess Skaði as the mother of Freyr.

As a concentrated form of narrative prose fiction, the short story has been theorised through the traditional elements of dramatic structure: exposition ( the introduction of setting, situation and main characters ), complication ( the event that introduces the conflict ), rising action, crisis ( the decisive moment for the protagonist and his commitment to a course of action ), climax ( the point of highest interest in terms of the conflict and the point with the most action ) and resolution ( the point when the conflict is resolved ).

The reader must remember that vernacular fictional prose was not a respected genre in 14th century Italy and some of the criticisms Boccaccio combats in the introduction to the fourth day were common attitudes towards the genre.

In Parenthesis, which was published by Faber and Faber with an introduction by T. S. Eliot, was written in a mixture of verse and prose: it defies categorization as either poem or novel.

* 1998-Ruby Blondell, prose with introduction and interpretive essay ( Focus Classical Library, Focus Publishing / R Pullins Company ; ISBN 0-941051-25-0 )

In the prose introduction to the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, Frigg makes a wager with her husband — the god Odin — over the hospitality of their human patrons.

In the prose introduction to the poem Skírnismál, the god Freyr has become heartsick for a fair girl ( the jötunn Gerðr ) he has spotted in Jötunheimr.

In the prose introduction to the poem Lokasenna, Skaði is referred to as the wife of Njörðr and is cited as one of the goddesses attending Ægir's feast.

A prose introduction in the poem Völundarkviða relates that the brothers Slagfiðr, Egil, and Völund dwelt in a house sited in a location called Úlfdalir (" wolf dales ").

In the prose introduction to the poem Sigrdrífumál, the hero Sigurd rides up to Hindarfell and heads south towards " the land of the Franks ".

( In continuity, the prose introduction says: " Ægir, also named Gymir, had made ale for the Æsir, when he had received the great kettle of which was told " ( see Hymiskviða ).

Gymir is also equated with Ægir in the prose introduction to Lokasenna ; however, the Nafnaþulur added later to the Prose Edda list him among the giants.

ISBN 0-14-102628-6 — re-print of the Penguin Classic translation ( in prose ) by N. K. Sandars 1960 ( ISBN 014044100X ) without the introduction.

Beyla is mentioned in stanzas 55, 66, and the prose introduction to the Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna.

In the prose introduction to Lokasenna, Beyla and Byggvir are cited as attending In stanza 55 of Lokasenna, after his verses with Sif, Loki accuses Beyla of being filthy but the reason for this is unclear.

Iðunn is introduced as Bragi's wife in the prose introduction to the poem Lokasenna, where the two attend a feast held by Ægir.

Critical edition containing Greek, translation in prose, commentary and introduction.

Loki appears in both prose and the first six stanzas of the poem Reginsmál.

:: "... prose to describe an algorithm, ignoring the implementation details.

It is not until the 13th-century French prose romances, including the Lancelot-Grail and the Post-Vulgate Cycle, that Camelot began to supersede Caerleon, and even then, many descriptive details applied to Camelot derive from Geoffrey's earlier grand depiction of the Welsh town.

Following this final stanza a prose section details that after Loki left the hall, he disguised himself as a salmon and hid in the waterfall of Franangrsfors, where the Æsir caught him.

Tolkien's prose is unpretentious and straightforward, taking as given the existence of his imaginary world and describing its details in a matter-of-fact way, while often introducing the new and fantastic in an almost casual manner.

and inanimate items such as cars ( in particular in Fındık Sekiz ), autobiographical details ( Kaçan grew up in Dolapdere ), the blurring of the limitations of poetry and prose, and references

The poems, prose, proverbs found in the literature of the One Thousand and One Nights reveals many cultural details.

Certainly much of the power of his work derives purely from his prose style, one of the most fluid, dense and evocative in all modern literature .... His eye for the details and resonances of even the most mundane objects, and his ability to express them crisply and almost prose-poetically, give to his work at once a clarity and a dreamlike nebulousness that is difficult to describe but easy to sense.

After Helgi has killed the King Hunding in stanza 4, a prose narrative details that Helgi escapes and consumes the raw meat of cattle he has slaughtered on a beach, and he encounters Sigrún.

The second such inscription contains a unique example of early Welsh prose recording the details of the resolution of a land dispute.

" Editor and critic David Pringle writes that the novel " is narrated in an oddly detached, quizzical and dryly humorous manner … The paleo-anthropological details are superbly imagined, the African landscapes beautifully described, yet the final effect is one of coolness, distance … Michael Bishop's prose style is learned, witty, Latinate, although salted with deliberately-placed colloquialisms and low jokes.

Sturt's Desert Pea has also made many appearances in prose and verse, as well as featuring in some aboriginal legends ( see Symon & Jusaitis ( 2007 ) for further details ).

Adipurana written in Champu style, a mixed form of prose and verse is a Kannada version of the Sanskrit work by Jinasena and details the life of Rishabha, the first Tirthankara of Jainism, in sixteen cantos.

' His Nemesis, a prose tragedy in four acts about Beatrice Cenci, partly inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Cenci, was printed while he was dying.

Proto-Isaiah is divided between verse and prose passages: a currently popular theory is that the verse passages represent the prophecies of the original Isaiah, while the prose sections are " sermons " on his texts composed at the court of Josiah, at the end of the 7th century BCE.

Buffy's debut into literature came in the comic Dark Horse Presents 1998 Annual on August 26, 1998, while her first prose appearance was in Halloween Rain by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder on October 5, 1998.

Praising his portrayal of society while attacking his prose style, Flaubert once wrote: " What a man he would have been had he known how to write!

The historical novel marked a new resurgence ( Kratochvíl, Vančura, Durych, Schulz ) as a way to write about the present while cloaking it in historical novels, as did prose inspired by folk tales and folk culture ( Josef Štefan Kubín, Jan Drda, Vančura, Jaromír John, Zdeněk Jirotka ).

Traditionally, Shakespeare uses prose to distinguish social classes-the upper class generally speaks in poetry while the lower classes speak in prose.

In the prose section at the end of Lokasenna, the gods catch Loki and bind him with the innards of his son Nari, while they turn his son Narfi into a wolf.

In the poem Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, a prose narrative says that an unnamed and silent young man, the son of the Norwegian King Hjörvarðr and Sigrlinn of Sváfaland, witnesses nine valkyries riding by while sitting atop a burial mound.

The group swiftly conquered the US thanks to the promotion of Bill Murray the K, while Nasty's book of comic prose, Out Of Me Head, dominated the best-seller lists.

Meanwhile, Tony Judt, while praising Hobsbawm's vast knowledge and graceful prose, cautioned that Hobsbawm's bias in favour of the USSR, communist states and communism in general, and his tendency to disparage any nationalist movement as passing and irrational, weakened his grasp of parts of the 20th century.

Furthermore there have been expressionist writers of prose fiction, as well as non-German speaking expressionist writers, and, while the movement had declined in Germany with the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, there were subsequent expressionist works.

Thus, commentators such as Matei Călinescu and Carmen Muşat have also argued that a main characteristic of Eliade's fantasy prose is a substitution between the supernatural and the mundane: in this interpretation, Eliade turns the daily world into an incomprehensible place, while the intrusive supernatural aspect promises to offer the sense of life.

The storyteller ( tukang kaba ) recites the story in poetic or lyrical prose while accompanying himself on a rebab.

His verse, if not that of a great poet, has excellent dramatic qualities, while the prose of his prose dramas is admirable for directness, alertness, sinew and a large and effective wit.

But while Shamela started and finished as a sustained subversion of a rival work, in Joseph Andrews Fielding merely uses the perceived depravation of popular literature as a springboard to conceive more fully his own philosophy of prose fiction.

The play, which is in prose, was written shortly before his death in 1896 and printed while he was dying.

In the prose version of Robert de Boron's Merlin, the name of Uther's elder brother Ambrosius is given as " Pendragon ", while Uter ( Uther ) changes his name after his brother's death to " Uterpendragon ".

Both works are clear bids for patronage: Fame's Memorial is an elegy of 1169 lines on the recently-deceased Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire, while Honour Triumphant is a prose pamphlet, a verbal fantasia written in connection with the jousts planned for the summer 1606 visit of King Christian IV of Denmark.

Testimony was, initially, a prose retelling of stories that Reznikoff had discovered while working on court records.