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    Lokasenna (Old Norse: 'The Flyting of Loki', or 'Loki's Verbal Duel') is one of the poems of the Poetic Edda. The poem presents flyting between the gods...
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    jötunn Hymir (in Hymiskviða) or of the god Odin (in Skáldskaparmál). Lokasenna makes reference to an unnamed and otherwise unknown consort, perhaps also...
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    Loki (section Lokasenna)
    meaning of Loki's name. In various poems from the Poetic Edda (stanza 2 of Lokasenna, stanza 41 of Hyndluljóð, and stanza 26 of Fjölsvinnsmál), and sections...
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    what seems worst to me" and also lying. In stanzas 53 and 54 of the poem Lokasenna, after pouring Loki a crystal cup of mead during his series of insults...
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    Freyr (section Lokasenna)
    made Skíðblaðnir for Freyr and that it is the best of ships. In the poem Lokasenna, Loki accuses the gods of various misdeeds. He criticizes the Vanir for...
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    the father of Freyr in stanzas 38, 39, and 41. In the late flyting poem Lokasenna, an exchange between Njörðr and Loki occurs in stanzas 33, 34, 35, and...
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  • Beyla (section Lokasenna)
    in stanzas 55, 66, and the prose introduction to the Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna. Since this is the only mention of Beyla, scholars have turned to the...
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    Iuritha. In the Poetic Edda, Jörð receives mention in the poems Völuspá and Lokasenna. In Völuspá, Thor is referred to as mǫgr Hlóðyniar and Fjǫrgyniar burr...
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    Víðarr is mentioned in the poems Völuspá, Vafthrúdnismál, Grímnismál, and Lokasenna. In stanzas 54 and 55 of the poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that his...
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  • transformed into a wolf; in a prose passage at the end of the Eddic poem "Lokasenna", Narfi became a wolf and his brother Nari was killed. In chapter 50 of...
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    In the Poetic Edda, Gefjon appears solely in three stanzas of the poem Lokasenna, where an exchange occurs between Gefjun and Loki at a dinner feast, and...
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    the sons of Odin (see Sons of Odin). But "wish-son" in stanza 16 of the Lokasenna could mean "Odin's son" and is translated by Hollander as Odin's kin....
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    to rather than recounted at length. Baldr is mentioned in Völuspá, in Lokasenna, and is the subject of the Eddic poem Baldr's Dreams. Among the visions...
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  • attested as a mythical local name of a forest in the Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna, and the heroic poems Atlakviða, Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Hlöðskviða...
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    Fimafeng is one of the servants of Ægir in Norse mythology. In the Lokasenna, Fimafeng is killed out of jealousy by Loki at a party held by his master...
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    Þjazi (section Lokasenna)
    all men can see afterwards. What were you doing meanwhile, Harbard?" In Lokasenna, it was neither Odin nor Thor but Loki himself who during his verbal sparring...
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  • Byggvir (section Lokasenna)
    The only surviving mention of Byggvir appears in the prose beginning of Lokasenna, and stanzas 55 through 56 of the same poem, where he is referred to as...
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  • (Poem)" – 1:47 "Crater of the Valkyries" – 8:21 "Sea I Called" – 5:34 "Lokasenna" – 5:39 All tracks written by Cornelius and Lazare. "Red for Fire + Black...
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    the poems Völuspá, Grímnismál, Skírnismál, Hárbarðsljóð, Hymiskviða, Lokasenna, Þrymskviða, Alvíssmál, and Hyndluljóð. In the poem Völuspá, a dead völva...
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    Edda, Ægir receives mention in the eddic poems Grímnismál, Hymiskviða, Lokasenna, and in the prose section of Helgakviða Hundingsbana I. In Grímnismál...
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    mentioned a second (and final) time in the ending prose section of the poem Lokasenna. In the prose, Loki has been bound by the gods with the guts of his son...
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    any other name for the goddess." Iðunn appears in the Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna and, included in some modern editions of the Poetic Edda, in the late...
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    mentioned in the poems Völuspá, Vafþrúðnismál, the prose of Grímnismál, Lokasenna, and Oddrúnargrátr. Frigg receives three mentions in the Poetic Edda poem...
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  • thus inventing a second Váli. In the rather cryptic prose at the end of "Lokasenna", which appears to be derived from Snorri's account, Narfi transforms...
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    "Blood Brotherhood Leitmotiv". Additionally, it is briefly stated in Lokasenna that Odin and Loki are blood brothers. Among the Scythians, the covenantors...
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    English poetry Lindow 2001, p. 121. Skáldskaparmál (ON). Brodeur 1916. Lokasenna (ON). Sundqvist 2013. Gylfaginning (ON). Young 1992. Ögmundar þáttr dytts...
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  • and Freyja. This shadowy goddess is attested to in the Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna, recorded in the 13th century by an unknown source, and the Heimskringla...
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    mythology were seiðr practitioners, Óðinn was accused by Loki in the Lokasenna of being "unmanly" to which Odin replied with: "Knowest thou that I gave...
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    harsh words from their son Freyr. In the prose introduction to the poem Lokasenna, Skaði is referred to as the wife of Njörðr and is cited as one of the...
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    partitively and in compounds and kennings (e.g., Urðarbrunnr, the well of Urðr; Lokasenna, the gibing of Loki). There were several classes of nouns within each...
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