The Prose Edda on Idun

The Younger Edda: > Chapter Ii.

• attestation: The Prose Edda discusses Idun and her apples

  "Idun and her Apples"

The Younger Edda: > Chapter Iv. > Introduction.

• attestation: Idun possesses beautiful apples that can render great services

  "Idun, with her beautiful apples, might, if applied to, render even greater services"

The Younger Edda: > Chapter Viii. > The Asas.

• attestation: Idun, Brage's wife, keeps in a box the apples the gods eat to become young again, sustaining them until Ragnarok

  "His wife is Idun. She keeps in a box those apples of which the gods eat when they grow old, and then they become young again, and so it will be until Ragnarok (the twilight of the gods)."

The Younger Edda: > Chapter Ii. > Idun And Her Apples.

• attestation: Without Idun the gods became gray-haired and old

  "The asas were ill at ease on account of the disappearance of Idun,--they became gray-haired and old"

The Younger Edda: > Chapter Iv. > Idun.

• attestation: Idun is called wife of Brage and keeper of the apples that serve as medicine to bar old age (elixir vitae)

  "She is called the wife of Brage, the keeper of the apples; but the apples are called the medicine to bar old age (ellilyf, elixir vitæ)."

• attestation: Idun is called the booty of the giant Thjasse who took her from the asas

  "She is also called the booty of the giant Thjasse, according to what has before been said concerning how he took her away from the asas."

• attestation: After Idun's abduction, all the race of Yngve-Frey grew old and gray at the Thing, and the gods became ugly-looking

  "All the race Of Yngve-Frey, at the Thing, Grew old and gray,-- Ugly-looking were the gods."