Heiðrún
Sign in to savethumb|The goat Heiðrún consumes the foliage of the tree Læraðr, while her udders produce mead, collected in a pot below (1895) by Lorenz Frølich. right|thumb|Heiðrún consumes the leaves of Læraðr Negga Valhalla in an illustration from an 18th-century [[Icelandic manuscript.]]
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It sits within the topics Animals in Norse mythology, Fictional goats and Mythological caprids.
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- Heiðrún
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- Prose Edda
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- Marin Goleminov
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thumb|The goat Heiðrún consumes the foliage of the tree Læraðr, while her udders produce mead, collected in a pot below (1895) by Lorenz Frølich. right|thumb|Heiðrún consumes the leaves of Læraðr Negga Valhalla in an illustration from an 18th-century [[Icelandic manuscript.]]
Heiðrún or Heidrun is a nanny goat in Norse mythology, that consumes the foliage of the tree Læraðr and produces mead from her udders for the einherjar. She is described in the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda.
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