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The Gylfaginning deals with Gylfi's encounters with the Aesir, and his disguised journey as Gangleri to Asgard. There Gylfi is ostensibly exposed to the glories of Asgard and its inhabitants. The whole of this narrative is however remarkably metaphysical since the Aesir, who according to Sturluson, have foreknowledge, trick him into a belief in the arcane complexities of the Norse pantheon, ultimately leaving him standing on empty ground. It can be argued that Sturluson used this narrative device as a means of being able to safely document a vanishing and largely oral tradition within a post-Christian context.
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