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    about Þrúðr, but the daughter is not named. The Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál (4) tells that Thor can be referred to by the kenning "father of Þrúðr" (faðir...
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    jötunn Járnsaxa. With Sif, Thor fathered the goddess (and possible valkyrie) Þrúðr; with Járnsaxa, he fathered Magni; with a mother whose name is not recorded...
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    says "bear ale to the einherjar"; Skeggjöld ("axe-age"), Skögul, Hildr, Þrúðr ("power"), Hlökk ("noise", or "battle"), Herfjötur ("host-fetter"), Göll...
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  • "Mighty," respectively. Rudolf Simek states that, along with Thor's daughter Þrúðr ("Strength"), they embody their father's features. Móði and Magni's descent...
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  • but cites as an alternative suggestion a relation to the valkyrie's name Þrúðr. If so it is natural to connect the druden with the daughter of the chieftain...
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    objects for other gods. Sif is also named in the Prose Edda as the mother of Þrúðr by Thor and of Ullr. Scholars have proposed that Sif's hair may represent...
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    Alvíss, a dwarf who requested the hand in marriage of Thor's daughter Þrúðr. Thor outwits him by keeping him talking until daybreak, whereupon he turns...
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    "Alvíssmál" poem within the 12th century Poetic Edda, Thor's daughter, Þrúðr, was promised in marriage to Alvíss. Thor was unhappy with the match, however...
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    daughter Þrúðr by the stone-made giant Hrungnir, as suggested by an earlier kenning by 9th-century skald Bragi: 'leaf of the soles of the thief of Þrúðr [SHIELD]'...
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    Svipul, Geirskögul, Hildr ok Skeggöld, Hrund, Geirdriful, Randgríðr ok Þrúðr, Reginleif ok Sveið, Þögn, Hjalmþrimul, Þrima ok Skalmöld. I will recite...
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  • Baldr Týr Höðr Hermóðr Bragi Iðunn Víðarr Váli Skjöldr Gefjon Unnamed jötunn Sif Thor Járnsaxa Döglingar Forseti Scyldings 4 sons Ullr Móði Þrúðr Magni...
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    *ÞunraR (Gives his name to Thursday). Sif (consort), Járnsaxa Móði and Magni, Þrúðr Most attestations of Germanic paganism Tuisto (Latinized Germanic) "double"...
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    Modthryth, Thryth ('strength', cf. Old Norse Þrúðr, the daughter of Thor), and Fremu are reconstructed names for a character who figures as the queen...
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  • god Thor talks to the dwarf Alviss to prevent him from marrying his daughter Þrúðr; at dawn Alviss turns to stone. Drawing by W. G. Collingwood, 1908...
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    The valkyries Hildr, Þrúðr and Hlökk bearing ale in Valhalla (1895) by Lorenz Frølich....
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  • as a powerful king. Fólkvangr, the afterlife field of the goddess Freyja Þrúðr, daughter of Thor Simek (2007:330). Faulkes (1995:22). Faulkes (1995:46)...
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    ásynjur Skaði, Sigyn, Hnoss, Gerðr, Jörð, Iðunn, Ilmr, Njörun, Nanna, Rindr, Þrúðr, Rán. Some scholars have noted, however, that the Prose Edda does not reflect...
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  • god Thor talked to the dwarf Alviss to prevent him from marrying his daughter Þrúðr; at dawn Alviss turns to stone. Drawing by W. G. Collingwood, 1908...
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  • concern Y Þingfriþ þras quarrelling, bickering Y Thrassald, Þrassar þryþ, OH þrúðr, OE þrȳð, drut, trud, thrud, thryth force, strength Y Y Drutmund; Æthelthryth...
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    into Grímnismál, Odin gives a list of valkyries (Skeggjöld, Skögul, Hildr, Þrúðr, Hlökk, Herfjötur, Göll, Geirahöð, Randgríð, Ráðgríð, and Reginleif), and...
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  • (Imð) Ulfrún Njörun Rán Rindr Sága Sif Sigyn Sjöfn Snotra Sól Syn Þorgerðr Þrúðr Vár Vör Jötnar Angrboða (Angrboda, Iárnvidia) Aurboða Bestla Gjálp Greip...
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    Nafnaþulur Svipul "Changeable" Darraðarljóð, Nafnaþulur Þögn "Silence" Nafnaþulur Þrima "Fight" Nafnaþulur Þrúðr "Strength" or "power" Grímnismál, Nafnaþulur...
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  • complete with allusions to heathen myths and aristocratic epithets for saints: Þrúðr falda "goddess of headdresses" = "Saint Catherine" (Kálfr Hallsson: Kátrínardrápa...
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    Thor talks to the dwarf Alviss to prevent him from marrying his daughter Þrúðr; at dawn Alviss turns to stone, just as Tolkien's stone Trolls do in The...
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  • is coupled in the kenning; this is a known type of valkyrie-name. Eir, Þrúðr, and the norn Skuld are other female figures variously identified as valkyries...
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    "lordly meter" the dróttkvætt. It is notable for mentioning Thor's daughter Þrúðr and Viðurr, one of the names for Odin, in kennings for "chieftain." In the...
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    Þrȳðo means "force", "power" and "strength", from PGmc *þrūþiz, cf. ON Þrúðr. The compound Mōdþrȳðo is an emendation by Klaeber that many have followed...
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