The Prose Edda on Gefjun

The Younger Edda: > Chapter I.

• attestation: The Prose Edda contains a section on Gefjun's Plowing

  "Gefjun's Plowing"

• comparison: The Gefjun plowing story is compared to Virgil's Aeneid account of Dido founding Carthage

  "This story about the ploughing of Gylfe reminds us of the legend told in the first book of Virgil's Æneid"

The Younger Edda: > Chapter I. > Gefjun'S Plowing.

• attestation: Gefjun was a woman of the Aesir race who received a plow-land from Gylfe as reward for storytelling

  "this woman was of the asa-race; her name was Gefjun"

• attestation: Gefjun took four oxen from Jotunheim who were sons of a giant and herself

  "She took from the north, from Jotunheim, four oxen, which were the sons of a giant and her"

• attestation: Gefjun plowed the land so deeply it tore up and was drawn westward into the sea, creating the island of Seeland

  "Then went the plow so hard and deep that it tore up the land, and the oxen drew it westward into the sea"

The Younger Edda: > Chapter X. > The Goddesses (Asynjes).

• attestation: Gefjun receives maidens who die unwed; Fulla wears flowing hair with a golden ribbon and carries Frigg's chest

  "The fourth is Gefjun, who is a may, and those who die maids become her hand-maidens. The fifth is Fulla"