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    Fjölsvinnsmál (Old Norse: 'The Lay of Fjölsvinn') is the second of two Old Norse poems commonly published under the title Svipdagsmál "The Lay of Svipdagr"...
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  • weapon is mentioned briefly thus in the poem Fjölsvinnsmál: Bugge proposed that this poem Fjölsvinnsmál should be treated as Part II of Svipdagsmál (sequel...
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    poem Fjölsvinnsmál.[citation needed] The poem refers to her as a pale giantess (gýgr), so she is "probably a giantess". The poem Fjölsvinnsmál is a bridal...
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  • the cock Víðópnir. Mímameiðr is solely attested in the Old Norse poem Fjölsvinnsmál. Due to parallels between descriptions of the two, scholars generally...
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  • positioned on the brow of another cosmic bird. According to the eddic poem, Fjölsvinnsmál, Víðópnir or Víðófnir [ˈwiːðˌoːvnez̠] is a rooster that inhabits the...
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  • re-published by ADP Gauntlet, 2014, with Olive Bray, translator) ISBN 978-0692200650 Germanic Mythology Fjölsvinnsmál The Lay of Fjolsvith: Fjolsvinnsmal v t e...
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    Sophus Bugge noticed that the last part of the ballad corresponded to Fjölsvinnsmál. Bugge wrote about this connection in Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet...
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    "sudden day") is the hero of the two Old Norse Eddaic poems Grógaldr and Fjölsvinnsmál, which are contained within the body of one work; Svipdagsmál. Svipdagr...
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    Edda (stanza 2 of Lokasenna, stanza 41 of Hyndluljóð, and stanza 26 of Fjölsvinnsmál), and sections of the Prose Edda (chapter 32 of Gylfaginning, stanza...
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  • Hyndluljóð, Völuspá Dáni "Deadlike" Fjölsvinnsmál Darri "Spearman" Dorri Fjölsvinnsmál Dellingr The gleaming one Fjölsvinnsmál, Skáldskaparmál Dolgr "Warrior"...
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  • girl rather than a jötunn in Fjölsvinnsmál. According to philologist Rudolf Simek, however, the testimony of Fjölsvinnsmäl is probably secondary, and the...
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    to Mímir's speaking, decollated head. Stanzas 20 and 24 of the poem Fjölsvinnsmál refer to Yggdrasil as Mímameiðr. In chapter 15 of the Prose Edda book...
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    title Svipdagsmál found in several 17th-century paper manuscripts with Fjölsvinnsmál. In at least three of these manuscripts, the poems are in reverse order...
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    and Gifr "Violent" are two dogs which guard the maiden Menglöð in the Fjölsvinnsmál. See Bloomfeld (1908:316–318). Heinrich (2006 [1999]: 355). For discussion...
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    the phrase to svigi læva to identify it with the sword Lævateinn in Fjölsvinnsmál. Snorri paraphrases the strophe of the poem a second time in Gylfaginning...
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    their horses to "flounder in the great river". The late Eddic poem Fjölsvinnsmál, stanza 24, contains the line "Surtur sinn mautu" or "surtur sinn mantu"...
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    been compared to the Greek goddess Hygieia. In the Poetic Edda poem Fjölsvinnsmál, the watchman Fjölsviðr presents a list of the maidens that attend the...
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    most editions after 1950: Grógaldr (Gróa's Spell, The Spell of Gróa) Fjölsvinnsmál (Ballad of Fjölsvid, The Lay of Fjölsvid) Hrafnagaldr Óðins (Odins's...
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    the Vanir to the Æsir in the Æsir-Vanir War. In stanza 8 of the poem "Fjölsvinnsmál", Svafrþorinn is stated as the father of Menglöð by an unnamed mother...
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  • Menglöð by an unnamed mother, and is attested solely in a stanza of Fjölsvinnsmál. As this is the only mention of the figure, further information has...
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  • Sigurðr took after he slew the dragon. Lævateinn – A weapon mentioned in Fjölsvinnsmál by Sophus Bugge. Ostensibly forged by Loki. Legbiter – The sword of...
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  • Völuspá Sinmara Contested None attested Consort: Surtr (supposed) Fjölsvinnsmál Simul Nafnaþulur Sívör Nafnaþulur Skaði Father: Þjazi Consort: Njörðr...
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  • Æsir, and to the Alfar prosperity, wisdom to Hroptatyr. In the poem Fjölsvinnsmál, Svipdagr asks "What one of the gods has made so great the hall I behold...
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    stanza 8 of Guðrúnarkviða II cited in Hjelmquist 144. In stanza 45 in Fjölsvinnsmál cited in Hjelmquist 144. E.g., Woolf 63–81; Poole passim. E.g., Gunnlaugs...
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    dragon. Lævateinn, a sword mentioned in an emendation to the Poetic Edda Fjölsvinnsmál by Sophus Bugge. it was forged by the elf Völundr. Legbiter, the sword...
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    beneficial for pregnant women, the cock Víðópnir roosts on top of it Fjölsvinnsmál Yggdrasil Cosmological, central to all things An immense ash tree, central...
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    the halls of the underworld location of Hel in stanza 43. The poem Fjölsvinnsmál also mentions a rooster by the name of Víðópnir. According to the poem...
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  • (Icelandic and Latin translation) Arnamagnæan Institute Copenhagen 1787 Fjölsvinnsmál (Icelandic and Latin translation) Arnamagnæan Institute Copenhagen 1787...
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    that this poem should not be subject to greater skepticism than e.g. Fjölsvinnsmál and Sólarljóð (other Eddic poems thought to be of later authorship and...
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  • as[verification needed] Svipdagr, who appears as Menglöd’s beloved in Fjölsvinnsmál. Rydberg’s intentions in his investigations of Germanic mythology were...
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