The Poetic Edda on Fathir

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• attestation: The stanza describes an act of creation involving Fathir.

  "27. Within two gazed | in each other's eyes, Fathir and Mothir, | and played with their fingers; There sat the house-lord, | wound strings for the bow, Shafts he fashioned, | and bows he shaped."

• attestation: The stanza references wealth or gifts involving Fathir.

  "27. Within two gazed | in each other's eyes, Fathir and Mothir, | and played with their fingers; There sat the house-lord, | wound strings for the bow, Shafts he fashioned, | and bows he shaped."

• attestation: The stanza references rulership or authority involving Fathir.

  "27. Within two gazed | in each other's eyes, Fathir and Mothir, | and played with their fingers; There sat the house-lord, | wound strings for the bow, Shafts he fashioned, | and bows he shaped."

The > Volume I > Notes

• attestation: Fathir and Mothir mean Father and Mother in the noble class of the Rigsthula

  "Fathir and Mothir: Father and Mother"