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Lokasenna (Old Norse: 'The
Flyting of Loki', or 'Loki's
Verbal Duel') is one of the
poems of the
Poetic Edda. The poem
presents flyting between the gods...
- jötunn
Hymir (in Hymiskviða) or of the god Odin (in Skáldskaparmál).
Lokasenna makes reference to an
unnamed and
otherwise unknown consort,
perhaps also...
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meaning of Loki's name. In
various poems from the
Poetic Edda (stanza 2 of
Lokasenna,
stanza 41 of Hyndluljóð, and
stanza 26 of Fjölsvinnsmál), and sections...
- what
seems worst to me" and also lying. In
stanzas 53 and 54 of the poem
Lokasenna,
after pouring Loki a
crystal cup of mead
during his
series of insults...
- made Skíðblaðnir for
Freyr and that it is the best of ships. In the poem
Lokasenna, Loki
accuses the gods of
various misdeeds. He
criticizes the
Vanir for...
- in
stanzas 55, 66, and the
prose introduction to the
Poetic Edda poem
Lokasenna.
Since this is the only
mention of Beyla,
scholars have
turned to the...
- The only
surviving mention of
Byggvir appears in the
prose beginning of
Lokasenna, and
stanzas 55
through 56 of the same poem,
where he is
referred to as...
- Víðarr is
mentioned in the
poems Völuspá, Vafthrúdnismál, Grímnismál, and
Lokasenna. In
stanzas 54 and 55 of the poem Völuspá, a völva
tells Odin that his...
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Fimafeng is one of the
servants of Ægir in
Norse mythology. In the
Lokasenna,
Fimafeng is
killed out of
jealousy by Loki at a
party held by his master...
- the
father of
Freyr in
stanzas 38, 39, and 41. In the late
flyting poem
Lokasenna, an
exchange between Njörðr and Loki
occurs in
stanzas 33, 34, 35, and...
