Haustlöng
Sign in to savethumb|right|250px|Loki strikes Þjazi with a rod in this picture from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript. Haustlǫng (Old Norse: 'Autumn-long'; anglicized as Haustlöng) is a skaldic poem composed around the beginning of the 10th century by the Norwegian skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir.
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9 sectionsContents
- Title
- Text
- Abduction of Iðunn
- Thor's duel with Hrungnir
- Other verses
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|right|250px|Loki strikes Þjazi with a rod in this picture from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript. Haustlǫng (Old Norse: 'Autumn-long'; anglicized as Haustlöng) is a skaldic poem composed around the beginning of the 10th century by the Norwegian skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir.
The poem has been preserved in the 13th-century Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, who quotes two groups of stanzas from it and some verses to illustrate technical features of skaldic diction. Snorri also drew inspiration from Þjóðólfr to redact his own version of the myths told in Haustlöng.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Haustlöng” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.