Fjölsviðr
deity Norse single tradition · 1
Fjölsviðr speaks to Svipdagr in the poem Fjölsvinnsmál. He is name number 13 in the thula of Oðinn's 60 names. He is the gatekeeper to Menglöd's vast submarine realm.
When
- First attested
- 1200 CE
- Attested period
- 1200 – 1400
- Historical notes
- Attested in Fjölsvinnsmál poem.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Bestla, Borř son of Búri, Oðinn, Menglöð, Svafrþorinn
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“Svafrþorinn is attested in a stanza of the poem Fjölsvinnsmál, where Fjölsviðr tells Svipdagr that: As the more authoritative Benjamin Thorpe's translation, as it here is put, clearly erroneously in rendering that the mother begat Menglöð' with Svaf, Thorin's son, thus seems to cause a misreading by convention”
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