of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, also known as Gátur Gestumblinda ('Gestumblindi's riddles'), Heiðreks gátur ('Heiðrekr's riddles') and Heiðreksmál ('Heiðrekr's...
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Scandinavian riddles (redirect from Gátur)
manuscript), mostly in the ljóðaháttur metre; these are known as the Gátur Gestumblinda. The saga is thought to have been composed in the thirteenth century...
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Vafþrúðnir in the Old Norse poem Vafþrúðnismál and to King Heiðrekr in the Gátur Gestumblinda in Heiðreks saga ("What did Óðinn whisper in Baldr's ear before Baldr...
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Óðinn challenges King Heiðrekr to answer his riddles, known as the Gátur Gestumblinda. cf. 927 Goldberg 1993, 31–34. Irish thirteenth century CE Imthecht...
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