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    mythology, Gróa (possibly from Old Norse "growing") is a völva (seeress) and practitioner of seiðr. She is the wife of Aurvandil the Bold. Groa was also...
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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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    Grógaldr or The Spell of Gróa is the first of two Old Norse poems, now commonly published under the title Svipdagsmál found in several 17th-century paper...
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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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    Fiksdal Fiskåbygd Flemma Flåskjer Fyrde Geiranger Gjemnes Gjøra Glærem Grip Grøa Gullstein Gursken Haddal Halsanaustan Hareid Hausbygda Heggem Helle Hellesylt...
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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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    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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  • Guðrún Gróa Þorsteinsdóttir (born 21 January 1989) is an Icelandic basketball player and a former power lifter. She won the Icelandic basketball championship...
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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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