The Poetic Edda on Gefjun

The > Volume I > Introductory Note

• attribution: Gefjun delivers a speech in the verse.

  "18. "To Loki I speak not | with spiteful words Here within Ægir's hall; And Bragi I calm, | who is hot with beer, For I wish not that fierce they should fight."

Gefjun spake:"

The > Volume I > Notes

• attestation: Gefjun is a goddess served by women who died as maidens, according to Snorri

  "Gefjun: a goddess, not elsewhere mentioned in the poems, who, according to Snorri, was served by the women who died maidens"

• attestation: Gefjun may be another name for Frigg, with some of Freyja's attributes mixed in

  "it has been suggested that Gefjun is really Frigg under another name, with a little of Freyja—whose attributes were frequently confused with Frigg's—thrown in"