The Prologue is the first section of four books of the Prose Edda, and consists of a euhemerized Christian account of the origins of Norse mythology: the Norse gods are described as human Trojan warriors who left Troy after the fall of that city and settled in northern Europe, where they were accepted as divine kings because of their superior culture and technology.
Regarding Prologue, scholar Anthony Faulkes comments that "undoubtedly one of [the author of Prologue]'s motives for including the prologue, and maybe the chief reason for the use of the frame device itself, was to avoid the criticism that his stories were dangerous to orthodoxy".[1]
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