Mjollnir, Gróa is asked to help magically remove shards of Hrungnir's whetstone which became embedded in Thor's head. Unfortunately while Gróa was about...
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in modern editions of the Poetic Edda, comprising two poems, The Spell of Gróa and The Lay of Fjölsviðr. The two works are grouped since they have a common...
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There, Gróa is the wife of Aurvandil, a man Thor rescues from certain death on his way home from Jötunheim. The news of her husband's fate makes Gróa so happy...
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flies into Thor's head, becoming stuck. To remove it, he went to the völva Gróa, who began a galdr to loosen it. While she was singing, Thor told her that...
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All-star game: 2010 "Guðrún Gróa fékk silfur". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 7 June 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2017. "Guðrún Gróa ekki með meisturunum í vetur"...
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Grøa is a village in Sunndal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located along the river Driva and along the Norwegian National...
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This motif occurs from Norse mythology, where Svipdagr rouses his mother Gróa from the grave so as to learn from her how to accomplish a task his stepmother...
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of the witch Gróa: Thor went home to Thrúdvangar, and the hone remained sticking in his head. Then came the wise woman who was called Gróa, wife of Aurvandill...
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Hading Foreign rulers Skat Sigtryg Asmund Uffe Gusonis Svipdagr Sumble Henry Handwan Loker Other men Bess Lysir Roar Women Grytha Alfhild Gróa Signe v t e...
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works and not included in most editions after 1950: Grógaldr (Gróa's Spell, The Spell of Gróa) Fjölsvinnsmál (Ballad of Fjölsvid, The Lay of Fjölsvid) Hrafnagaldr...
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Thor, in particular his defeat of Hrungnir and subsequent encounter with Gróa. The Old Norse word gramr means "king" and is probably the source of Gram's...
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practitioner of seiðr was Gróa, who attempted to assist Thor, and who in the Svipdagsmál in a poem entitled Grógaldr "Gróa's spell" is summoned from beyond...
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commissioned a large portrait of Gísli and herself, alongside his first two wives, Gróa Þorleifsdóttir (d. 1660) and Ingibjörg Benediktsdóttir (d. 1673). Ragnheiður...
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2018. "Guðrún Gróa fékk silfur". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 7 June 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2017. Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson. "Guðrún Gróa nálægt því að...
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Universe Iceland 2022". Fréttablaðið (in Icelandic). 25 August 2022. "Elísa Gróa er Miss Universe Iceland 2021". visir.is. Retrieved 30 September 2021. "Hrafnhildur...
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whetstone lodged in his head, Thor returned to Þrúðvangr, where the völva Gróa unsuccessfully attempted to remove the stone. In the Heimskringla book Ynglinga...
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Hading Foreign rulers Skat Sigtryg Asmund Uffe Gusonis Svipdagr Sumble Henry Handwan Loker Other men Bess Lysir Roar Women Grytha Alfhild Gróa Signe v t e...
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impossible task, he summons by necromancy the shade of his dead mother, Gróa, a völva who also appears in the Prose Edda, to cast nine spells for him...
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Examples of this can be found in Grógaldr and in Frithiof's Saga. In Grógaldr, Gróa chants nine (a significant number in Norse mythology) galdrar to aid her...
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Retrieved 7 November 2021. Sigfúsdóttir, Sylvía Rut (29 September 2021). "Elísa Gróa er Miss Universe Iceland 2021". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Archived from the...
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carries her off. The play mentions her claim to the throne. She appears, named Groa, as a major character in Dorothy Dunnett's 1982 novel of Macbeth, King Hereafter...
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1186/1756-3305-1-23. PMC 2503959. PMID 18638387. Ólafsdóttir, Guðbjörg Ásta; Pétursdóttir, Gróa; Bárðarson, Hlynur; Edvardsson, Ragnar (2017-10-27). Corriero, Aldo (ed.)...
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service by 1978 and sold around 1980. Gróa (I) TF-GRO Hughes 500C Defender 1976 1980 Named after the völva (seeress) Gróa. On 17 November 1980 it collided...
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branch of Yggdrasil, and later rescue a pacifistic Týr in Svartalfheim. At Gróa's shrine in Alfheim, they learn only Asgard is fated for destruction while...
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perimeter Ibadi mosque complex (16th century CE). Sidi Jemour coastal area. Groa outskirts. Médenine Governorate. Not a functioning mosque during Episode...
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Aurgrímnir Örgrimnir Nafnaþulur Aurvandil "Luminous wanderer" None attested Wife: Gróa Chronicon Lethrense, Christ I, Gesta Danorum, Gothica Bononiensia. Orendel...
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extraordinarily tall. Subjugated the Alemanni in order to marry a Saxon princess. Gram Groa Signe Son of Skiod While his father was still alive, he invaded Sweden, and...
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this title. In the first poem, Svipdagr enlists the aid of his dead mother, Gróa, a witch, to assist him in the completion of a task set by his cruel stepmother...
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Hólar (1657–1684); husband of Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir 5,000 kr obverse 1986 Gróa Þorleifsdóttir 1640–1660 1st wife of Gísli Þorláksson 5,000 kr obverse 1986...
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daughter Lilja has decided that her father, the farmer Hrafn, and his wife Gróa, should move into a home for the elderly. Both Lilja and the delivery man...
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