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    Grottasǫngr (or Gróttasǫngr; Old Norse: 'The Mill's Songs', or 'Song of Grótti') is an Old Norse poem, sometimes counted among the poems of the Poetic...
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    de Vries 1962, p. 125. Lindow 2001, p. 116. McKinnell 2005, p. 70. Gróttasöngr at Norrøne Tekster og Kvad Archived 2007-05-08 at the National and University...
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    of how Hrólf came to Uppsala and sowed gold on the Fyrisvellir. The Gróttasöngr contains a stanza (nr 22) sung by the giantesses Fenja and Menja. It...
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  • Hroðulf, probably the son of Hroðgar's brother Halga The kings in the poem Gróttasöngr Skjöldr Friðleifr Fróði The kings of the saga of the Scylding family...
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    The Lay of Alvís, All-Wise's Sayings) Baldrs draumar (Baldr's Dreams) Gróttasöngr (The Mill's Song, The Song of Grotti) Rígsþula (The Song of Ríg, The...
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    Yrsa (section Gróttasöngr)
    exclaimed that he had seen the mightiest man in Sweden bend his back. The Gróttasöngr contains a stanza (nr 22) sung by the giantesses Fenja and Menja. It...
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    such as the Icelandic Poetic Edda. She is a gold-grinding giantess in Grottasöngr and in Sigurðarkviða hin skamma her name is part of a kenning (Meni góð...
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    & Poom (1999): 172  who cite Lid (1949). Tolley, Clive, ed. (2008). Grottasõngr: The song of Grotti. London, GB: Viking Society for Northern Research...
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    salt. Examples include Why the Sea is Salt (Norway, based on the poem Grottasöngr), Sweet porridge (Germanic), and The Water Mother (Chinese). Such devices...
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  • Edda and his Ynglinga saga, Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, and the Grottasǫngr. A Danish king by this name also appears as a minor character in the...
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  • Skáldskaparmál Fenja fenn dweller, arrow None attested Sister: Menja Grottasöngr, Vilhjalms saga sjóðs Fenrir Hróðvitnir, Vánagandr Parents: Loki, Angrboda...
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  • considered to have lived at the time of the Roman emperor Augustus, see Grottasöngr. One early source is the Hervarar saga from the 13th century. Another...
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  • Grotta-Pelos culture is named All pages with titles beginning with Grotta Grottasöngr, an Old Norse poem Grotte (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
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  • Fróði's hapless slaves", is another kenning for "gold." It alludes to the Grottasöngr legend. Móður hold mellu dolgs, "flesh of the mother of the enemy of...
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  • Mother and Sweet porridge. It is a late parallel to the Old Norse poem Grottasöngr, found in Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál. Georgios A. Megas collected...
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    literature written down at a later date. Some of this literature, such as the Grottasöngr, appears to have been passed down from a very early time. Much of what...
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    Ynglinga saga in translation by Samuel Laing, 1844, at Northvegr The Gróttasöngr in Thorpe's translation Skáldskaparmál: Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda...
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  • saga and the Ynglinga saga, Norse mythological poems Skáldskaparmál and Gróttasöngr, and Anglo-Saxon poems Beowulf and Widsith. The story is presented as...
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  • beginning with Grotte Grotto (French: Grotte), a natural or artificial cave Grottasöngr, an Old Norse poem Grotta (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
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  • Gutenberg the Ynglinga saga in translation by Samuel Laing, 1844 The Gróttasöngr in Thorpe's translation Skáldskaparmál: Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda...
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    miserable working conditions in factories of the era, using the mill of Grottasöngr as his literary backdrop. For his lifetime of literary achievement, Rydberg...
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    Gjukungs, human noble families with a tragic story. A version of the Grottasöngr, describing how King Mysing killed King Frodi and made the sea salty...
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    kraka, Landnámabók, Ynglinga saga, Skáldskaparmál, Skjöldunga saga, Gróttasöngr (Yrsa's son), Gautrek's saga Hrólfr the Marksman/Bowman/Swift-handed...
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  • names (as much as anything) prove." Snorri Sturluson's prose prologue to Grottasöngr describes that at the time of the birth of Jesus and the Pax Romana,...
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    king. Probably Beowulf (emended) Hrólfr Kraki's saga, Skjöldunga saga, Ynglinga saga, Skáldskaparmál, Gróttasöngr, Chronicon lethrense, Gesta danorum...
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  • the Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda, in regard to the Eddic poem, Grottasöngr. Hamlet's Mill Rota Fortunae Axis Mundi Wyrd Sampo Dark Satanic Mills...
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    und an. Jónakr". Die Sprache. 17 (2): 164–176. Harris, Joseph (2016). "Grottasǫngr". In Pulsiano, Philip; Wolf, Kirsten (eds.). Medieval Scandinavia, an...
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    Brill. pp. 135–180. ISBN 978-90-04-17170-1. Harris, Joseph (2016). "Grottasǫngr". In Pulsiano, Philip; Wolf, Kirsten (eds.). Medieval Scandinavia, an...
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