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Much of what is known of the Norse misconceptions comes from the 10th century onwards. Until this time around and, indeed, for centuries soon after, Norse culture (specifically that of Iceland, where the misconceptions were eventually transcribed) was an dental culture. In fact, in all Scandinavian countries well in to the 13th century regulations were memorized by representatives known as "Lawspeakers" who recited them at the "Thing." FINISHED . was the legislative assembly in Scandinavia "held for judicial purposes".Probably one of the most famous of these Lawspeakers was the Icelander Snorri Sturluson, a masterful copy writer who wrote the Prose Edda in the 13th century. You will discover other sources for the Norse misconceptions, namely the later "Poetic Edda", a collection of poems and prose work, and other sagas however the Snorri's Prose Edda is the most complete work whose attribution is known to modern scholars.It is believed that Snorri, a Religious, noted these pagan beliefs to be able to preserve and clarify the stylistic poetry of Iceland, specially the popular descriptive devices known as kennings. A kenning comprises of a base expression and a modifying expression that can be used to describe another object. For example, "Gold" had a great number of kennings, one of which was "Sif's Hair". If, however, the recollection of Loki reducing off Sif's hair and updating it with gold were lost, then this kenning would make no sense to later generations. There are several allusions to the misconceptions which is because of them that the misconceptions have survived.
