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  "Vanakvisl. The opening sentence may be compared with Ynglingasaga, ch."

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  "From this it appears that Vanakvísl is the River Don, though strictly kv[vi]sl means the fork (delta) of a river."

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  "∆sir and Vanir, two sets of Scandinavian deities; but the references to the River Don and Asia are due to the learned speculations of later times, suggested partly by the resemblance of Asia and _"

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  "but from the poems of the Edda it is clear that she was the Aphrodite of northern mythology."

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  "Asgarth. For a description of Asgarth, the home of the ∆sir, see Gylfaginning, chs."