Three heavens.
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On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
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— written from the served texts; every claim cited receiptThe three heavens are served — one chapter away from where our wiring points. Thompson cites Snorri’s Gylfaginning XVII; the resolved row lands on the chapter our translation numbers XVII, the post-Ragnarok Regeneration, which has its own triad of good abodes: “Best it is to be in Gimle, in heaven”; Brimer — “That is also in heaven”; and a hall of red gold on the Nida mountains, Sindre [The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda), THE FOOLING OF GYLFE. XVII]. The passage the index wants sits earlier in the served book, among the wonderful things in heaven. Asked who guards Gimle — where “In this hall the good and the righteous shall dwell through all ages” — when Surt’s fire comes, Har answers that “above this heaven is another heaven, which is called Andlang”, and “there is a third, which is above these, and is called Vidblain”, where Gimle itself stands — “we deem that the light-elves alone dwell in it now” [The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda), THE FOOLING OF GYLFE. VII]. Three heavens stacked like shelves, the fairest hall on the topmost. The mismatch is a numbering seam between Snorri’s chapters and Anderson’s divisions — a wiring fix; the text itself is complete and exact.
Witnesses: The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda), THE FOOLING OF GYLFE. VII · The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda), THE FOOLING OF GYLFE. XVII