Nordic Religions in the Viking Age provides context to the time period in which Sturluson writes his prose Edda. The ending of “Gylfaginning” is heavily influenced by Christian views that age in time. In his second chapter, DuBois divulges the extremity of Christian views of pagans. Pagan religion was a “real threat, even if it remained inferior to the might of the Christian God” (DuBois 39). Although Christians were confident that their faith was superior, the non-Christians’ commitment to their religion impeded the spread of Christianity. In order to combat these subordinate religions, the Church implored missionaries to “show superior knowledge of the cosmos, calling on the might of the almighty God over the more limited powers of the demonic
