• mythology, Járnviðr (Old Norse "Iron-wood") is a forest located east of Midgard, inhabited by trollwomen who bore jötnar and giant wolves. Járnviðr is attested...
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    Eddic poem "Völuspá", who dwells to the east of Midgard in the forest of Járnviðr ("Ironwood") and "fosters Fenrir's kin". Snorri states that this giantess...
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  • Breidablik Elivagar Fyris Wolds Gandvik Ginnungagap Hel Hlidskjalf Hvergelmir Járnviðr Jötunheimr Leipter River Kormet Midgard Muspelheim Náströnd Niðavellir...
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    He is the herder of the female jötunn (probably Angrboða) who lives in Járnviðr (Ironwood) and raises monstrous wolves. In the poem Völuspá, Eggþér is...
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    worshipped in Old Norse religion. One of the tröllkonur who dwell in the wood Járnviðr is a mother of jötnar in the forms of wolves and from whom are descended...
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  • Völuspá, Eggþér is portrayed as the herder of the jötunn who lives in Járnviðr (Ironwood). Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor argue that he may have been...
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  • Gallows-wood that bright-red cockerel who is called Fialar — Larrington trans. Járnviðr Larrington, Carolyne (Trans.) (1999). The Poetic Edda. Oxford World's Classics...
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  • from sideros (σιδηρος) meaning "iron", and xylon (ξύλον) meaning "wood" Járnviðr "Acacia estrophiolata F. Muell". FAO. July 9, 2008. Archived from the original...
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    völva divulges to Odin that, in the east, an old woman sat in the forest Járnviðr "and bred there the broods of Fenrir. There will come from them all one...
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    Cedrus libani Garden of the Hesperides Immortality Mount Olympus Paradise Járnviðr Sandars, Nancy K., ed. (1977). The epic of Gilgamesh. Penguin classics...
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  • He is the herder of the female jötunn (probably Angrboða) who lives in Járnviðr (Ironwood) and raises monstrous wolves. In the poem Völuspá, Eggþér is...
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  • the Wolfings from 1888, and later by J. R. R. Tolkien in his fiction. Járnviðr Hercynian Forest, an ancient forest of southern Germany Miriquidi Simek...
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