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All-father sent Skirnir down to Svartalfheim World of the Dark Elves, and there he had some dwarfs make the fetter called Gleipnir...
Archive 2010-04-01 Carla 2010
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All-father sent Skirnir down to Svartalfheim World of the Dark Elves, and there he had some dwarfs make the fetter called Gleipnir...
Old English gods and myths: the worlds Carla 2010
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Ziggy London: Frankly, it is a great relief that a ragbag such as Akasha and a gumflipper such as Skirnir have decided that they are meant for one another.
T'was a nice day for a NPIRL wedding... Bettina Tizzy 2008
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Akasha and Skirnir, may you be ever happy and playful.
T'was a nice day for a NPIRL wedding... Bettina Tizzy 2008
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When Kash and Skirnir agreed - quite enthusiastically, I might add - Ziggy concluded: Never before, in all my years of judging, hosting glorious tea parties and drawing lovely pictures of horses, have I met such a degenerate bunch of quibbling, snivelling, squelchy, hairy snotbags as you two.
T'was a nice day for a NPIRL wedding... Bettina Tizzy 2008
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All-father, however, sent Skirnir, the messenger of the god Frey, into the country of the Black Elves, to the dwarfs, to ask them to make a chain to bind Fenris with.
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The story of the wooing of Gerd is in this form: how Frey sat in the seat of Odin and saw a fair maid in Jotunheim, and got great sickness of thought, till his swain Skirnir found the cause of his languishing, and went to woo Gerd for him in Gymi's Garth.
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Before the Volsung series comes a number of poems chiefly mythological: the _Sibyl's Prophecy_, (Volospá); _the Wooing of Frey_, or the _Errand of Skirnir_; the _Flyting of Thor and Woden_
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"Speak, Skirnir, before thou dost dismount from thine horse."
The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum 1926
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Skirnir came to his lair and stood near him, and he was dwarfed by the Wolf's monstrous size.
The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum 1926
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