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    article: Poetic Edda/Vafþrúðnismál Vafþrúðnismál English translation by Benjamin Thorpe, along with the Old Norse version. Vafþrúðnismál Sophus Bugge's edition...
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    from a stanza of Vafþrúðnismál, tíva rök from two stanzas of Vafþrúðnismál, þá er regin deyja ('when the gods die') from Vafþrúðnismál, unz um rjúfask...
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  • a single time in the Poetic Edda; in a stanza of the poem Vafþrúðnismál. In Vafþrúðnismál, Gagnráðr (the god Odin in disguise) engages in a game of wits...
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  • Gylfaginning, chapter 5. Gylfaginning, Chapter 5. Vafþrúðnismál (ON), Stanza 31. Bellows 2004, Vafþrúðnismál stanza 31. Bellows, Henry Adam (2004). The poetic...
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  • fog) is a location in Norse mythology which appears in the eddic poems Vafþrúðnismál and Baldrs draumar, and also in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning. According...
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    the gods. The Norns are also described as maidens of Mögþrasir in the Vafþrúðnismál. Beside the three Norns tending Yggdrasill, pre-Christian Scandinavians...
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  • brothers are mentioned among the survivors of Ragnarök in the Poetic Edda Vafþrúðnismál: Apart from his role after Ragnarök, there is nothing we know about...
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    as to the underlying meaning and origins of both names. In the poem Vafþrúðnismál, collected in the Poetic Edda, the god Odin poses a question to the...
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  • Hræsvælg and the common Swedish form is Räsvelg.[citation needed] In Vafþrúðnismál (The Lay of Vafþrúðnir), Odin questions the wise jötunn Vafþrúðnir about...
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    mythology. Ymir is mentioned in four poems in the Poetic Edda; Völuspá, Vafþrúðnismál, Grímnismál, and Hyndluljóð. In Völuspá, in which an undead völva imparts...
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