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Gods and Myths of Northern EuropeDalton, Oxford University Press, 1927) GRENDEL: Monster who attacked the Danish king’s hall, and was slain by Beowulf, as recounted in the Anglo-Saxon poem GRÍMNISMÁL: Poem in the Edda, the utterance of Grímnir, who is Odin in disguise GULLINBURSTI: ‘Golden-bristled’. Golden boar made by the dwarfs, owned by Freyr GUNGNIR: Spear of Odin GUNNAR HELMING (GUNNARR HELMINGR): Hero of short humorous story inserted into Flateyjarbók, a Norwegian who impersonated the god Freyr in Sweden GYLFI: Early king of Sweden who let Gefion take Zealand. Appears in the Prose Edda as the questioner of the gods in the section called Gylfaginning (the beguiling of Gylfi) GYMIR: Father of Gerd, and said to be the same as Aegir HADDING (HADDINGR): Famous hero in Denmark. Hadingus in Saxo HADDINGJAR: The Haddings. Pair of brothers sometimes named among early kings of Norway or Sweden, thought to have been twin deities HAETHCYN (HÆðCYN): Second son of Hrethel, king of the Geats in Beowulf, and slayer of his brother HAGBARD (HARBARðR): Lover of Signy, put to death by her father ...» |
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