The Fridthjof's Saga: A Norse Romance on Brage

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• attestation: The poet Brage is described in the poem as a silver-bearded god sitting beneath shadowy birches, telling an endless saga by Mimer's murmuring fountain.

  "Even as bees upon roses; the poet was thinking of Brage,*

*(Bra'-gay)

Brage with silver beard flowing, and tongue clothed in wisdom the choicest, Sitting 'neath shadowy birches, telling a story by Mimer's Unceasingly murmuring fountain, he too a saga unending."

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• attestation: Brage the silver-bearded poet-god sings Ring's drapa (funeral hymn) in Valhalla; Freyja reclines and bends over the table burning to hear the song of Ring's deeds.

  "Graspeth the gold-string, Gray-bearded Brage, Stiller now sigheth The song than before; Freyja the faithful, Fondly reclining. Bends o'er the board and Burneth to hear."

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• attestation: Brage is the god of poesy, son of Odin; Breidablik is Balder's abode and means 'broad-gleaming'.

  "BRAGE. God of poesy: a son of Odin.

BRAN. Fridthjof's dog.

BREIDABLIK (broad-gleaming). Balder's abode."