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right|frame|Thor's foot goes through the boat as he struggles to pull up Jörmungandr in the Altuna Runestone.

Book · Open Library

Author
Carla Del Zotto Tozzoli
First published
1979
Editions
1
Subjects
Hymiskviða

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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • Summary
  • Comparative mythology
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

right|frame|Thor's foot goes through the boat as he struggles to pull up Jörmungandr in the Altuna Runestone.

Hymiskviða (Old Norse: 'The lay of Hymir'; anglicized as Hymiskvitha, Hymiskvidha or Hymiskvida) is a poem collected in the Poetic Edda. The poem was first written down in the late 13th century.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hymiskviða” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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