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Freyr - Skírnismál | | Freyr - Skírnismál: Encyclopedia II - Freyr - Skírnismál | | The courtship of Freyr and Gerðr is dealt with extensively in the Eddic poem Skírnismál.
Freyr is depressed after seeing Gerðr. Njörðr and Skaði ask Skírnir to go and talk with him.
Freyr reveals the cause of his grief and asks Skírnir to go to Jötunheimr to woo Gerðr for him. Freyr gives Skírnir a horse and his magical sword for the journey.
Mar ek þér þann gef,
er þik um myrkvan berr
vísan vafrloga,
ok þat sverð,
er sjalft mun v ...
See also:Freyr, Freyr - Adam of Bremen, Freyr - The Prose Edda, Freyr - The Poetic Edda, Freyr - Skírnismál, Freyr - Skaldic poetry, Freyr - Heimskringla, Freyr - Icelanders' sagas, Freyr - Gesta Danorum, Freyr - Other traditions, Freyr - Ballad of Veraldur, Freyr - Possible Later Survivals, Freyr - Notes | | | Freyr, Freyr - Adam of Bremen, Freyr - Ballad of Veraldur, Freyr - Gesta Danorum, Freyr - Heimskringla, Freyr - Icelanders' sagas, Freyr - Notes, Freyr - Other traditions, Freyr - Possible Later Survivals, Freyr - Skaldic poetry, Freyr - Skírnismál, Freyr - The Poetic Edda, Freyr - The Prose Edda | | |
| | | Freyr: Encyclopedia II - Freyr - Skírnismál
Freyr - Skírnismál
The courtship of Freyr and Gerðr is dealt with extensively in the Eddic poem Skírnismál.
Freyr is depressed after seeing Gerðr. Njörðr and Skaði ask Skírnir to go and talk with him.
Freyr reveals the cause of his grief and asks Skírnir to go to Jötunheimr to woo Gerðr for him. Freyr gives Skírnir a horse and his magical sword for the journey.
Mar ek þér þann gef,
er þik um myrkvan berr
vísan vafrloga,
ok þat sverð,
er sjalft mun vegask
ef sá er horskr, er hefr. — Guðni Jónsson's edition
"My steed I lend thee
to lift thee o'er the weird
ring of flickering flame,
the sword also
which swings itself,
if wise be he who wields it." — Hollander's translation
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