Skírnismál (Sayings of Skírnir) is one of the poems of the Poetic Edda. It is preserved in the 13th-century manuscripts Codex Regius and AM 748 I 4to but may have been originally composed in heathen times. Many scholars believe that the poem was acted out, perhaps in a sort of hiéros gamos. ==Synopsis== The prose prologue to the poem says that...
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(from the article `Germanic religion and mythology`) The Eddic poem Skírnismál (`The Lay of Skírnir`) relates the wooing of Freyr`s bride, Gerd (Gerðr), a giant-maiden. This story has often been ... ...but most modern scholars agree that it was composed in Iceland about the year 1000, when the people w...
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