- In
Norse mythology,
Gefjon (Old Norse: [ˈɡevˌjon];
alternatively spelled Gefion, or
Gefjun [ˈɡevjon],
pronounced without secondary syllable stress) is...
- in disguise. The
Danish tradition on
Gylfi tells how he was
tricked by
Gefjon and her sons from Jötunheim, who were able to
shapeshift into tremendous...
- lost his
right hand
while binding the
great wolf Fenrir; and the
goddess Gefjon, who
formed modern-day Zealand, Denmark.
Various beings outside of the gods...
-
including the thrice-burnt and thrice-reborn Gullveig/Heiðr, the
goddesses Gefjon, Skaði, Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa, Menglöð, and the 1st
century CE "Isis"...
- large-scale
group of oxen
pulling a plow and
being driven by the
Norse goddess Gefjon. It is
located in
Nordre Toldbod area next to
Kastellet and immediately...
-
Gefion is an
alternative spelling for
Gefjon of
Norse mythology. It may also
refer to:
Gefion Fountain, a
fountain in Copenhagen,
Denmark Gefion family...
-
depicts the ****ault on Jörmunrek, the Hjaðningavíg tale, the
ploughing of
Gefjon, and Thor's
struggle with the
Midgard Serpent.
Recent scholarship has suggested...
-
context in
being unnamed. As was
noted by
Albert Morey Sturtevant, Njǫrun and
Gefjon are the only
female names recorded in Old
Norse texts that have the suffix...
- but
never tells. The
three following goddesses may be
hypostases of her.
Gefjon,
goddess ****ociated with plowing, foreknowledge, and virginity. Sága, goddess...
- also
located on Zealand.
Nerthus is then
commonly compared to the
goddess Gefjon, who is said to have
plowed the
island of
Zealand from
Sweden in the Prose...
