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Post by beth on Oct 8, 2016 1:22:58 GMT -5
My own favourite Gods and Goddesses are Bragi - God of Poetry - and his wife Idun, Goddess of Apples and the Spring. I believe Lin wrote a poem about them; when she has recovered from her self-imposed exile from message boards I will try to persuade her to post it. That would be great, Mike! Ask her to consider posting it over in this topic. I think it would be well received.
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Post by ladylinda on Oct 24, 2016 15:41:56 GMT -5
The Fall of Idun:
How strange, that a branch of the World-Tree Should drop me, Idun, down to the dark world, Where I lay faint and fixed my gaze On the sights of chilly Hel in Niflheim.
Bragi and Heimdall and Loki came With a white wolfskin to wrap me in, But cold had stiffened my sad heart And I neither spoke nor moved.
O Bragi, my husband, you stayed with me In chilly Nastrond; back your companions went. You touched no strings on your lute while you lay there: None but you knows what befell in Niflheim.
Author notes
This is a poem based on Norse mythology. Idun, goddess of apples and basically life, is married to Bragi, god of poetry. She is taken down to hell in a Norse version of the Persephone myth and Bragi remains with her during her time in the infernal regions.
Bragi is the Norse God of poetry he and his wife Idun - the Goddess of apples - have always been favourite myths of mine. He went down to hell to stay with his wife (a kind of reversal of the usual pattern) and the myth is generally thought to be a symbol of winter followed by spring with Idun representing spring.
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