[2-3] inum eineygja faðmbyggvi Friggjar ‘to the one-eyed embrace-occupier of Frigg <goddess> [= Óðinn]’: Frigg is Óðinn’s wife. According to SnE (2005, 17; cf. Vsp 27-8), he was obliged to give one eye as a pledge to Mímir when he requested a drink from Mímir’s spring, a source of wisdom.
References
- Internal references
- Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].
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