• In Norse mythology, Hoddmímis holt (Old Norse "Hoard-Mímir's" holt) is a location where Líf and Lífþrasir are foretold to survive the long winters of Fimbulvetr...
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    will be Líf and Lífþrasir and that they will hide in the forest of Hoddmímis holt, that they will consume the morning dew, and will produce generations...
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    foretold to survive the events of Ragnarök by hiding in a wood called Hoddmímis holt and, after the flames have abated, to repopulate the newly risen and...
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    understandable from the cyclic nature of the Eddic eschatology". Simek says that Hoddmímis holt "should not be understood literally as a wood or even a forest in which...
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    stags Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór. Scholars generally consider Hoddmímis holt, Mímameiðr, and Læraðr to be other names for the tree. The tree is an...
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  • and Lífþrasir will survive and that they will live in the forest of Hoddmímis holt. The mythology might be related to the volcanic winter of 536, which...
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  • another name for the world tree Yggdrasil, along with the similarly named Hoddmímis holt, a wood within which Líf and Lífthrasir are foretold to take refuge...
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    appears in the names of the well Mímisbrunnr, and the names Mímameiðr and Hoddmímis holt, which scholars generally consider to be names for Yggdrasil. Scholars...
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    Líf and Lífthrasir that will have hid from "Surtr's fire" in the wood Hoddmímis holt. In the Epilogue section of the book Skáldskaparmál, a euhemerized monologue...
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    High quotes the stanza involving Odin and the well from Völuspá. Hoddmímis holt, a holt associated with Mímir Hvergelmir Urðarbrunnr Wetlands and islands...
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    particularly beautiful tree with red-gold foliage Poetic Edda, Prose Edda Hoddmímis holt Unstated Generally considered to be another name for Yggdrasil. Future...
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