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    In Norse mythology, Gefjon (Old Norse: [ˈɡevˌjon]; alternatively spelled Gefion, or Gefjun [ˈɡevjon], pronounced without secondary syllable stress) is...
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    disguise. The Danish tradition on Gylfi deal with how he was tricked by Gefjon and her sons from Jötunheim, who were able to shapeshift into tremendous...
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    large-scale group of oxen pulling a plow and being driven by the Norse goddess Gefjon. It is located in Nordre Toldbod area next to Kastellet and immediately...
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    including the thrice-burnt and thrice-reborn Gullveig/Heiðr, the goddesses Gefjon, Skaði, Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa, Menglöð, and the 1st century CE "Isis"...
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    lost his right hand while binding the great wolf Fenrir; and the goddess Gefjon, who formed modern-day Zealand, Denmark. Various beings outside of the gods...
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    lake was created by the goddess Gefjon when she tricked Gylfi, the Swedish king of Gylfaginning. Gylfi promised Gefjon as much land as four oxen could...
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  • Gefion is an alternative spelling for Gefjon of Norse mythology. It may also refer to: Gefion Fountain, a fountain in Copenhagen, Denmark Gefion family...
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    Víðarr, Váli, Ullr, Forseti and Loki and the ásynjur as Frigg, Sága, Eir, Gefjon, Fulla, Freyja, Sjöfn, Lofn, Vár, Vör, Syn, Hlín, Snotra, Gná, Sól, Bil...
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  • Gríðr Rindr Nanna Baldr Týr Höðr Hermóðr Bragi Iðunn Víðarr Váli Skjöldr Gefjon Unnamed jötunn Sif Thor Járnsaxa Döglingar Forseti Scyldings 4 sons Ullr...
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  • context in being unnamed. As was noted by Albert Morey Sturtevant, Njǫrun and Gefjon are the only female names recorded in Old Norse texts that have the suffix...
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    The Gefion Fountain in Copenhagen, showing the Norse goddess Gefjon carving Zealand from Sweden....
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    but never tells. The three following goddesses may be hypostases of her. Gefjon, goddess associated with plowing, foreknowledge, and virginity. Sága, goddess...
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    Freyja, presides over Fólkvangr; chooses half of those who die in battle Gefjon, a goddess who oversees those who die as virgins Hel, goddess of the dead...
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    depicts the assault on Jörmunrek, the Hjaðningavíg tale, the ploughing of Gefjon, and Thor's struggle with the Midgard Serpent. Recent scholarship has suggested...
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  • at the Heidelberg Observatory in Germany. The asteroid was named after Gefjon from Norse mythology. Gefion is the namesake and parent body of the Gefion...
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  • Snorri's Ynglinga Saga in the Heimskringla, Skjöld's wife is the goddess Gefjön and the same account occurs in most, but not all, manuscripts of the Edda...
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    probably originally about Vänern: the Swedish king Gylfi promised a woman, Gefjon, as much land as four oxen could plough in a day and a night, but she used...
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    okellyi, described in 2018. The genus is named after the Norse goddess Gefjon, while the species is named after the scientist Charles J. O'Kelly, a pioneer...
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    also located on Zealand. Nerthus is then commonly compared to the goddess Gefjon, who is said to have plowed the island of Zealand from Sweden in the Prose...
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  • Sandraudiga Vagdavercustis Wurdiz Frea Astrild Ásynjur Eir Frigg Fulla Gefjon Gerðr Gná Hlín Iðunn Ilmr Irpa Lofn Nanna Nine Mothers of Heimdallr Angeyja...
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    Norse being Hel Rán, a Norse goddess who oversees those who have drowned Gefjon, a Norse goddess who oversees those who die as virgins Freyja, a Norse goddess...
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    wife, holds him back. Loki then insults Iðunn, calling her sexually loose. Gefjon is the next to speak and then Loki turns his spite on her. Odin then attempts...
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    chapter 57, various goddesses are listed, including Gerðr (between Snotra and Gefjon). In chapter 12 of Ynglinga saga (as collected in Heimskringla), a euhemerized...
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  • 2012 Neptun Werft 135 m / 443 ft 3,138 tons   Switzerland 95 190 Viking Gefjon 8339990 2015 Neptun Werft 135 m / 443 ft 3,138 tons   Switzerland 95 190...
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    are accounted for in any other surviving source. Afterward, the goddess Gefjon speaks up and the poem continues in turn. In the poem Hrafnagaldr Óðins...
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  • sorority and the sister society of Fraternitas, and was named for the goddess Gefjon in Norse mythology. The 22 members of the original fraternity Silentium...
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    The story borrowed parts of Heimskringla, parts of the poem Lokasenna (of Gefjon sleeping with a boy for a necklace), parts of the Húsdrápa poem (of Loki...
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    verses, each describing a scene depicted on the shield: two mythological, Gefjon plowing the island of Zealand out of Sweden and Thor fishing for the World...
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    57–73. Hansen, Mikkel Christian Dam (2019). "Håndtegnets udstrakte fngre". GEFJON 4. Aarhus Univeritetsforlag. pp. 86–151. ISBN 9788772190549. Gold und Kult...
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    Gefion as originally built, 1843 History Denmark Name Gefion Namesake Gefjon Laid down 1841 Launched 27 September 1843 Captured 5 April 1849 Fate Captured...
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