The Poetic Edda on Hlithskjolf
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attestation: Hlithskjolf ('Gate-Shelf') is Othin's watch-tower in heaven from which he can overlook all nine worlds.
"Hlithskjolf ("Gate-Shelf"): Othin's watch-tower in heaven, whence he can overlook all the nine worlds"
attestation: Hlithskjolf is Othin's watch-tower, from which Freyr first saw Gerth.
"Hlithskjolf: Othin's watch-tower; cf. Grimnismol, introductory prose."
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- attestation: Hlithskjolf is characterized by beauty in the verse.
"The Skirnismol is found complete in the Codex Regius, and through stanza 27 in the Arnamagnæan Codex. Snorri quotes the concluding stanza. In Regius the poem is entitled "For Scirnis" ("Skirnir's Journey"). "