Editing Hlidskjalf (section)

==''Prose Edda''==
In ''[[Gylfaginning]]'', [[Snorri Sturluson|Snorri]] mentions the high seat on four occasions. In the first instance he seems to refer to it rather as a dwelling place:
"There is one abode called Hliðskjálf, and when [[Odin|Allfather]] sat in the high seat there, he looked out over the whole world and saw every man's acts, and knew all things which he saw."

However, later he explicitly refers to it as the high seat itself:
"Another great abode is there, which is named [[Valaskjálf]]. Odin possesses that dwelling. The [[Æsir|gods]] made it and thatched it with sheer silver, and in this hall is the Hliðskjálf, the high seat so called. Whenever Allfather sits in that seat, he surveys all lands."

The third mention made of Hliðskjálf is during Snorri's recounting of the wooing of Gerd, quoted by him from ''Skírnismál''. Lastly, Snorri relates how Odin used the high seat to find [[Loki]] after he fled from the scene of his murder of [[Baldr]].

It is described to be inside the throne room of [[Valaskjálf]] Odin's home. It said upon it that Odin looks upon his world.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Rasmus |title=Norse Mythology |date=1884 |publisher=S. C. Griggs |page=231 |access-date=25 April 2023 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=u9xKAQAAMAAJ}}</ref>