• Wikisource has original text related to this article: Snorra Edda/Nafnaþulur Nafnaþulur in Old Norse and English parallel (verses 1-20; continues: Prose...
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    swans. The Old Norse poems Völuspá, Grímnismál, Darraðarljóð, and the Nafnaþulur section of the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál provide lists of valkyrie...
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    Svalinn (section Nafnaþulur)
    the role of Svalinn as part of his description of the cosmology: In the Nafnaþulur section of the Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson records Svalinn in a list...
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  • poetry and literature. Some of the names come from the Prose Edda list Nafnaþulur, and are not attested elsewhere, while other names are well attested throughout...
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  • ISBN 0-460-87616-3 Larrington, Carolyne (transl. and ed.) (1996). The Poetic Edda. Oxford World's Classics. ISBN 0-19-283946-2 Nafnaþulur in Old Norse...
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    Freyr (section Nafnaþulur)
    Arinbjarnarkviða that his friend has been blessed by the two gods. In Nafnaþulur Freyr is said to ride the horse Blóðughófi (Bloody Hoof). Freyr is mentioned...
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    Skuld (section Nafnaþulur)
    called Skuld, ride ever to take the slain and decide fights." In the Nafnaþulur addition to Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda the following sections reference...
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    Prose Edda, and her name appears among ways to refer to cows later in the Nafnaþulur section of the book. In Gylfaginning, Gangleri (described earlier in Gylfaginning...
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    be fully incorporated into the gods and are referred to as Ásynjur in Nafnaþulur. Consistent with this, reference to Skaði's vés in Lokasenna and toponyms...
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    makes the sea swell'. Gylfaginning, Nafnaþulur May be connected to the god name Heimdallr. Skjálf 'shaker' Nafnaþulur Also the name of the daughter of a...
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  • A sea-king (sækonungr) in the Norse sagas is generally a title given to a powerful Viking chieftain, even though the term sea-king may sometimes predate...
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    will be a god of fertility, or one of the Vanir". Jakobsson 1998, p. 63. Nafnaþulur. Gylfaginning 21-30. Gylfaginning 11-20. Gylfaginning 31-40. Gunnell 2015...
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  • mentioned in a list of horses in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál and in Nafnaþulur section of the Prose Edda. According to Prose Edda book Gylfaginning,...
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  • Edda names his father as Odin. Járnsaxa is named as a tröllkona in the Nafnaþulur, while in Skáldskaparmál chapter 21, she is identified with Sif. While...
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  • appears in valkyrie list in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál and both of the Nafnaþulur valkyrie lists. No further information is provided about her. Rudolf Simek...
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  • Hildólfr (Old Norse "war-wolf") is a son of Odin according to the Nafnaþulur list of the Prose Edda's Skáldskaparmál. A tank in Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO...
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    mythology Herja (Old Norse) is a valkyrie attested in the longer of the two Nafnaþulur lists found in the Prose Edda. Rudolf Simek says the name is etymologically...
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    the valkyrie list in the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, in both of the two Nafnaþulur lists found in the Prose Edda, and among the valkyries listed in Darraðarljóð...
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    valkyries listed in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, and additionally in both Nafnaþulur lists found in the Prose Edda. Orchard (1997:194). Orchard, Andy (1997)...
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    listed in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, and in the longer of the two Nafnaþulur lists found in the Prose Edda. Rudolf Simek says the name is kenning-like...
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  • saga, Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar, Bósa saga ok Herrauðs, Ynglinga saga, Nafnaþulur (part of the Prose Edda) and Af Upplendinga konungum. He appears in different...
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    Member of the Vanir Skírnismál (37) Also attested as a heiti for boar in Nafnaþulur (97) Veralldar gud, Veraldargoð Veralldar gud, Veraldargod God of the...
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  • Björn Ironside and brother of king Erik Björnsson in Hervarar saga and in Nafnaþulur Refil (sword), the sword of Regin in Skáldskaparmál, see Riðill Refill...
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    of Sigyn in Skáldskaparmál is in the list of ásynjur in the appended Nafnaþulur section, chapter 75. The mid-11th century Gosforth Cross located in Cumbria...
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    or 'the hefty'/'the forceful' Name appears listed among jötnar in the Nafnaþulur Eistla Meaning obscure. Suggestions include 'the stormy one' (from eisa...
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    poem Oddrúnargrátr, and Óðins meyjar ("Odin's maids"), appearing in the Nafnaþulur. Óskmey may be related to the Odinic name Óski (roughly meaning "wish...
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    quotes from poems by Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld and Þjóðólfr of Hvinir. The Nafnaþulur section of Skáldskaparmál includes Jörð in a list of ásynjur names. Additionally...
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  • states that from Sjöfn's name comes the Old Norse word sjafni. In the Nafnaþulur section appended to the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, chapter 75, Sjöfn...
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    regarding their names, see Name section above). In chapter 61 of the Nafnaþulur subsection of Skáldskaparmál, the author again recounts the names of the...
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  • among valkyrie list in the poem Darraðarljóð and the longer of the two Nafnaþulur valkyrie lists in the Poetic Edda book Skáldskaparmál. In addition, the...
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