Prose Edda API - urantia.dev

The API serves The Prose Edda (Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, 1916) as JSON, one passage at a time, by the reference people use. Snorri Sturluson’s prose account of the Norse gods, about 1220. It has 603 passages in 3 parts. No key and no account.

Get a passage

# Gylfaginning 1.1
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/prose-edda/Gylfaginning%201.1

{
  "data": {
    "corpus": {
      "slug": "prose-edda",
      "title": "The Prose Edda",
      "translator": "Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur",
      "year": 1916
    },
    "passages": [
      {
        "ref": "Gylfaginning 1.1",
        "division": 2,
        "text": "King Gylfi ruled the land that men now call Sweden. It is told of him that he gave to a wandering woman, in return for her merry-making, a plow-land in his realm, as much as four oxen might turn up in a day and a night...."
      }
    ]
  }
}

The slug prose-edda, the id prose-edda-brodeur-1916, and the prefix prose edda all name this text.

References

Part, chapter, and paragraph, Gylfaginning 1.1. The parts are Prologue, Gylfaginning, and Skáldskaparmál. The paragraph numbers are ours. GET /scriptures/prose-edda lists every part with its first and last reference.

Search

# By meaning
curl -X POST https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/search/semantic \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"your question","corpus":"prose-edda","limit":5}'
# By keyword
curl 'https://api.urantia.dev/works/search?q=your%20words&work=prose-edda'

Each passage also links to the closest paragraphs of the Urantia Papers: GET /scriptures/prose-edda/Gylfaginning%201.1/urantia-parallels. The world religions guide explains how the links are made, and the MCP server has the same calls for AI agents.

Source

Text: The Prose Edda, translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (1916)
Source: en.wikisource.org
License: Public domain in the United States
Notes: Part, chapter, and paragraph (Gylfaginning 34.2): the chapters are Brodeur’s, and their paragraphs are numbered in order, with each verse in the paragraph before it. Gylfaginning 34 is the whole chapter. Brodeur’s introduction and notes are not here; his brackets are kept.