- of monsters. She is only
mentioned once in the
Poetic Edda (Völuspá hin
skamma) as the
mother of
Fenrir by Loki. The
Prose Edda (Gyl****inning) describes...
- "the one
making an
unlucky journey" or "unlucky traveler". Völuspá hin
skamma,
contained within Hyndluljóð,
states that Svaðilfari
fathered Sleipnir with...
-
Another account blaming the
Norns for
misfortune occurrs in Sigurðarkviða hin
skamma,
where the
valkyrie Brynhild blames malevolent Norns for her
yearning for...
-
immense hostility, and
Brunhild is portra**** as evil. Sigurðarkviða hin
skamma repeats the
story of
Sigurd once again.
Sigurd wins
Brunhild for Gunnar...
- poem
refers to
Heimdallr as the son of nine mothers. The poem Völuspá hin
skamma (contained
within the poem Hyndluljóð,
often considered a part of the Poetic...
- fursta, says that he was
killed while going to a thing. In Sigurðarkviða hin
skamma,
Sigurd comes to the
court of
Gjuki and he, Gunnar, and Högni
swear friendship...
- Ægir and Rán and the Nine
Mothers of
Heimdallr (as
listed in Völuspá hin
skamma) do not match.
Scholar John
Lindow comments that the
identification of Heimdallr's...
-
called a
skamma ("dug-up" area). The idea that this was a pit full of sand is wrong. Sand in the
jumping pit is a
modern invention. The
skamma was simply...
-
sister Gullrönd, are
probably inventions of the poet. Sigurðarkviða hin
skamma retells the
story of Sigurd's life from his
arrival at Gunnar's
court to...
- Völuspá hin
skamma (Old Norse: 'The
Short Völuspá) is an Old
Norse poem
which survives as a
handful of
stanzas in Hyndluljóð, in the
Poetic Edda, and as...
