Gylfaginning

The Gylfaginning takes the form of a dialogue between a Swedish King Gylfi and three men on thrones in Asgard called High, Just-As-High, and Third.

To find out more, he takes the "path of the serpent" to journey to Asgard; the Æsir realize he is coming and prepare illusions to deceive him.

Each question made to High, Just-As-High, and Third is about an aspect of the Norse mythology or its gods, and also about the creation and destruction of the world (Ragnarök).

The author may have used this narrative device as a means to safely document a vanishing and largely oral tradition within a Christian context.

[3] The very final section of the Gylfaginning is also related to the Trojan connection to the Æsir, but is discarded as a later addition written by a separate author than the rest of the work by some scholars.