The Poetic Edda on Fjorgyn

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• relationship: A figure is identified as the child of Fjorgyn.

  "56. In anger smites | the warder of earth,— Forth from their homes | must all men flee;— Nine paces fares | the son of Fjorgyn, And, slain by the serpent, | fearless he sinks."

• attestation: The stanza describes warfare or combat involving Fjorgyn.

  "56. In anger smites | the warder of earth,— Forth from their homes | must all men flee;— Nine paces fares | the son of Fjorgyn, And, slain by the serpent, | fearless he sinks."

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• attestation: Fjorgyn is a feminine form of Othin's name, here meaning Jorth (Earth), Thor's mother.

  "Fjorgyn: a feminine form of the same name, which belongs to Othin (cf. Voluspo, 56 and note); here it evidently means Jorth (Earth), Thor's mother."