The Poetic Edda on Gollveig

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

  "21. The war I remember, | the first in the world, When the gods with spears | had smitten Gollveig, And in the hall | of Hor had burned her,— Three times burned, | and three times born,"

The > Volume I > Notes

• attestation: Gollveig, meaning 'Gold-Might,' was apparently the first of the Wanes to come among the gods, and her ill-treatment caused the war between gods and Wanes

  "Gollveig ("Gold-Might"): apparently the first of the Wanes to come among the gods, her ill-treatment being the immediate cause of the war."

• attribution: Mullenhoff maintains that Gollveig is another name for Freyja

  "Müllenhoff maintains that Gollveig is another name for Freyja."