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    Taylor Hyndluljóð Sophus Bugge's edition of the manuscript text Hyndluljóð Guðni Jónsson's edition with normalized spelling Media related to Hyndluljóð at...
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    Freyja's boar In Norse mythology. The story of Hildisvíni appears in Hyndluljóð, an Old Norse poem found in Flateyjarbok but often considered a part of...
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    Loki (section Hyndluljóð)
    various poems from the Poetic Edda (stanza 2 of Lokasenna, stanza 41 of Hyndluljóð, and stanza 26 of Fjölsvinnsmál), and sections of the Prose Edda (chapter...
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    Þjazi (section Hyndluljóð)
    According to the interpolated group of stanzas known as the Short Völuspá in Hyndluljóð, Þjazi is further described as "the giant who loved to shoot". Þjazi,...
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    og Hyndluljóð [The sacred wedding and Norse royal ideology. An analysis of the hierogamy myth in Skírnismál, Ynglingatal, Háleygjatal and Hyndluljóð] (in...
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    Beowulf poet uses it to refer to Ongentheow's son Onela. The eddic poem Hyndluljóð, in stanza 16 speaks of descendants of an ancient king named Halfdan the...
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  • has been translated as 'iron dagger', or 'armed-with-an-iron-sword'. In Hyndluljóð, Járnsaxa is named as one of the Nine Mothers of Heimdallr. In Skáldskaparmál...
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    of the jötnar. In a stanza of Völuspá hin skamma (found in the poem "Hyndluljóð") all jötnar descend from Ymir. Gylfaginning elaborates on this, describing...
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    Skírnismál, Hárbarðsljóð, Hymiskviða, Lokasenna, Þrymskviða, Alvíssmál, and Hyndluljóð. In the poem Völuspá, a dead völva recounts the history of the universe...
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  • also listed in the þulur among the sons of Odin. In the Poetic Edda poem Hyndluljóð, a figure by the name of Nanna is listed as the daughter of Nökkvi and...
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    of Grotti) Rígsþula (The Song of Ríg, The Lay of Ríg, The List of Ríg) Hyndluljóð (The Poem of Hyndla, The Lay of Hyndla, The Song of Hyndla) Völuspá in...
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    gefna), pointing to a relation with the goddess. Stanza 47 of the poem Hyndluljóð contains mention of a figure by the name of Œdi. There, Hyndla taunts...
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    too and used it as his source for his description of Heiðrún. In the Hyndluljóð the giantess Hyndla (lit. bitch/she-dog) used the term "Heiðrún" to insult...
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  • (chapter 5): The additional stanzas that remain appear in Hyndluljóð. In his translation of Hyndluljóð, Henry Adams Bellows comments that the preserved fragment...
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    four poems in the Poetic Edda; Völuspá, Vafþrúðnismál, Grímnismál, and Hyndluljóð. In Völuspá, in which an undead völva imparts knowledge in the god Odin...
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    The name Hermóðr seems to be applied to a mortal hero in the eddic poem Hyndluljóð (stanza 2): The favour of the Highfather       we seek to find, To his...
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  • may be of greater age. In Völuspá hin skamma (Short Völuspá; a poem of Hyndluljóð), Angrboða is mentioned as the mate of Loki and mother of the wolf (Fenrir)...
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    eddic poems Grípisspá and Guðrúnarkviða II). According to the eddic poem Hyndluljóð, stanza 27: If Gotthorm or Gutthorm, the slayer of Sigurd in northern...
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    death is referred to as the "woe of Valhalla", and in stanzas 1 to 3 of Hyndluljóð, where the goddess Freyja states her intention of riding to Valhalla with...
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  • kenning 'Byleist's brother' (bróðir Býleists), such as in Völuspá (51), Hyndluljóð (40), or Skáldskaparmál (16). In both Gylfaginning (34) and Skáldskaparmál...
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    Simple, is a protégé and human lover of the goddess Freyja. He appeared in Hyndluljóð (the Lay of Hyndla), a poem in the Poetic Edda. In this tale, Óttar is...
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    poems Völuspá, Grímnismál, Lokasenna, Þrymskviða, Oddrúnargrátr, and Hyndluljóð. Völuspá contains a stanza that mentions Freyja, referring to her as "Óð's...
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  • "gravel-offerer" None attested Consort: Gymir Children: Beli, Gerðr Gylfaginning, Hyndluljóð, Svipdagsmál Aurekr Aurgrímnir Örgrimnir Nafnaþulur Aurvandil "Luminous...
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    from Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, regin þrjóta ('end of the gods') from Hyndluljóð, and, in the Prose Edda, þá er Muspellz-synir herja ('when the sons of...
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  • but assumes that the reader is familiar with their story. In the poem Hyndluljóð the goddess Freyja meets the völva Hyndla and they ride together towards...
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  • name of a child of the giant Hrímnir according to Völuspá hin skamma (Hyndluljóð, 32). Saxo Grammaticus reported a shield-maiden bearing this name as captain...
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    mentioned in the poems Grímnismál, Sigrdrífumál, Baldrs draumar, and Hyndluljóð. In Grímnismál, Grimnir (Odin in disguise and not yet having revealed...
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    contest in Vafþrúðnismál, and Hyndla to whom Freyja travels in the poem Hyndluljóð to find out the lineage of Ottar. The Wið færstice text from the late...
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    Additionally, the manuscript contains the only copy of the eddic poem Hyndluljóð, a unique set of annals from creation to 1394, and many short tales not...
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    nine mothers. The poem Völuspá hin skamma (contained within the poem Hyndluljóð, often considered a part of the Poetic Edda) contains three stanza that...
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