Lóðurr
Lóðurr is a god in Norse mythology. In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, he is assigned a role in animating the first humans, but apart from that he is hardly ever mentioned, and remains obscure. Scholars have variously identified him with Loki, Vé, Vili, and Freyr, but consensus has not been reached on any one theory.
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When
- First attested
- 700 CE
- Attested period
- 700 – 1500
- Historical notes
- Norse paganism dates ~700-1500 CE.
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“Lóðurr”
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“Völuspá does Hœnir and Lóðurr, some scholars have reasoned that Lóðurr might be another name for either Vili or Vé. Viktor Rydberg was an early proponent of this theory, but recently it has received little attention. A more popular theory proposed by the scholar Ursula Dronke is that Lóðurr is”
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“He may be identical to Lóðurr, one of the three gods creating the two first humans Ask and Embla. Contrary to this, Anatoly Liberman rejects the identity of Lýtir and Lóðurr and returns to the old idea that Lýtir was a cognomen of Freyr, who may have been known in Sweden as Freyr Lýtir.”
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