Dvalinn
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In
Attestation
Poetic Edda
In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, Dvalinn is mentioned as a name in the listing of dwarves, and again in a later stanza as a leader taking a host of dwarfs from the mountains to find a new dwelling place:
- "The rocks they left, and through wet lands
- They sought a home, in the fields of sand"
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In
In
Sagas
In
Sörla þáttr
In the Sörla þáttr, an Icelandic short story written by two Christian priests in the 15th century, Dvalinn is the name of one of the four dwarves (including Alfrigg, Berling and Grer) who fashioned a necklace which was later acquired by a woman called Freyja, who is King Odin's concubine, after she agreed to spend a night with each of them.
Kálfsvísa
In the Kálfsvísa, Dvalinn is mentioned in a list of Norse heroes riding their horses onto the ice. Dvalinn rides a horse named Móðnir ("Spirited").
Modern influence
Footnotes
- ^ "Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages". University of Aberdeen. Archived from the original on April 10, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
- ^ Burlew, Rich. "1016 King of Indecision". The Order of the Stick.
References
- The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection (London: Penguin, 2001)