- mythology,
Gefjon (Old Norse: [ˈɡevˌjon];
alternatively spelled Gefion, or
Gefjun [ˈɡevjon],
pronounced without secondary syllable stress) is a
goddess ****ociated...
-
Swedish lake Vänern, it is
sometimes identified as the hole left by
Gefjun.
Gefjun is
queen of King Skjöldr,
eponymous ancestor of the Scyldings, related...
- two
names has
resulted in
etymological results of
Gefjun meaning "the
giving one". The
names Gefjun and Gefn are both
related to the
Alagabiae or Ollogabiae...
- the
discoverer (who was
treated by him) DMP · 1271 1272
Gefion 1931 TZ1
Gefjun (Gefion) Fountain, Copenhagen,
Denmark DMP · 1272 1273
Helma 1932 PF Helma...
-
goddess Gefjun asks why the two gods must fight,
saying that Loki
knows that he is joking, and that "all
living things love him". Loki
responds to
Gefjun by...
- lacked. Jötunheimar are
referenced throughout Gyl****inning such as when
Gefjun takes four oxen, who were her sons with a jötunn, out of the jötunheimar...
-
descriptions of 16 ásynjur. High
lists Fulla fifth,
stating that, like the
goddess Gefjun,
Fulla is a virgin,
wears her hair
flowing freely with a gold band around...
-
attested None
attested Second Merseburg Incantation,
Poetic Edda,
Prose Edda
Gefjun (Old Norse)
Related to "giving" Skjöldr,
unnamed jötunn Four oxen Prose...
- his sons the findemna; as well as the myth of the
Norse virgin goddess Gefjun offering lands to Odin, are
generally cited as
possible reflexes of an inherited...
-
connection with fertility, as a king and
queen pray to her for a
child Gefjun,
Danish goddess of
ploughing and
possibly fertility Nerthus,
earth goddess...
