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Líf and Lífþrasir

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20: 170: 128:, the winter at the end of the world, occurs. Vafþrúðnir responds that they will be Líf and Lífþrasir, that the two will have hidden in the wood of Hoddmímis Holt, they will consume the morning dew as food, and "from them generations will spring". 229:
who lives inside a tree, whose descendants repopulate the land after life there has been wiped out by plague (citing a retelling by F. R. Schröder). In addition, Simek points to an Old Norse parallel in the figure of
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theorizes that the survival of Líf and Lífþrasir is "a case of reduplication of the anthropogeny, understandable from the cyclic nature of the Eddic
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fire", and that "from these people there will be descended such a great progeny that the world will be inhabited." The above-mentioned stanza of
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and, after the flames have abated, to repopulate the newly risen and fertile world. Líf and Lífþrasir are mentioned in the
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Carolyne Larrington notes that it is nowhere expressly stated what will happen to the world tree
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in disguise) that two people, Líf and Lífþrasir, will lie hid in Hoddmímis Holt during "
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labeled "Om Yggdrasil" (Danish: "about (or "around", depending on context) Yggdrasil").
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Anthropomorphic wooden cult figurines of Central and Northern Europe
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Schröder, F. R. (1931). "Germanische Schöpfungsmythen" in
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people, clan, and place names in Germanic heroic legend
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Simek (2007:189). For Schröder, see Schröder (1931).
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Index


Lorenz Frølich
Norse mythology
Old Norse
Ragnarök
Hoddmímis holt
Poetic Edda
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson
Vafþrúðnismál
Odin
jötunn
Vafþrúðnir
Fimbulvetr
Gylfaginning
High
Gangleri
Gylfi
Surt's

Yggdrasil
Urðarbrunnr
Grímnismál
Yggdrasil
Mímir
Völuspá
Rudolf Simek
eschatology
Yggdrasil
Germanic regions

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