Eddas Snorri

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The Norse myths survive because they were written down: the Poetic Edda, and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, set on parchment the gods, the world-tree, and the doom of Ragnarok that the spread of Christianity would otherwise have silenced. Memory saved by being recorded — the very act this whole archive is built on. — medieval literature