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	Gefjun - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gefjun ("giver"; also Gefjon, Gefyon, Gefn) was, in Norse mythology, a seeress and goddess, a member of both the Vanir and the Æsir.
		It is entirely conceivable that Gefjun is merely an aspect of Freyja in the same way that Morrigan (in Irish mythology) has a multiplicity of aspects.
		This legend is commemorated by the bronze Gefjun fountain in Copenhagen sculpted by Anders Bundgaard in 1908.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php/Gefjun (225 words)

	Gefjun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		All women who die virgin are sent to her hall, and thus she is characterised as a goddess of virtue, yet she was also a fertility goddess.
		This legend is commemorated by the bronze Gefjun fountain in Copenhagen, Denmark sculpted by Anders Bundgaard in 1908.
		The goddess' name is shared with a Norse term meaning "marriage", represented by the English language as "give", meaning "wife" (see dowry), and found in the form of a Rune.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gefjun (571 words)

	John Arnott MacCulloch — Eddic Mythology — Chapter 16
		Olrik, comparing the myth with traditional plough-rites at New Year surviving in Scandinavia and England, in which the plough is paraded, drawn by men masked as oxen under the lead of a woman (or a man masquerading as a woman), suggests that it was derived from such ritual.
		charm, and Gefjun was a Danish goddess of fertility and agriculture.
		That Gefjun was a Danish goddess is shown by her connexion with Skjold, the eponymous ancestor of the Ski oldings or Danish kings.
	www.vaidilute.com /books/mythology/macculloch-16.html (3633 words)

	Questing Spirit: PE: Lokasenna
		Gefjun and Freyja are silenced in similar fashion.
		Gefjun: a goddess, not elsewhere mentioned in the poems, who, according to Snorri, was served by the women who died maidens.
		There is a good deal of confusion as to various of the gods and goddesses, and it has been suggested that Gefjun is really Frigg under an other name, with a little of Freyja--whose attributes were frequently confused with Frigg's--thrown in.
	www.angelfire.com /stars3/ashtah/edda11.html (2847 words)

	Geofon Gefjun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gefjun is a Danish goddess whose name appears in Old English as Geofon, a word for "ocean." There are Danish place names for her such as Gentofte and Genvnö.
		Her name derives from the verb "to give" and is related to words seen amongst the Cult of Mothers practised by Roman mercenaries in Britain and on the continent.
		In some areas of Germany there were plow processions instead of those using wagons (as Frea's) or ships (as in the Germanic Isis mentioned by Grimm), and plow blessings in the spring were nearly universal in Northern Europe.
	www.ealdriht.org /geofun.html (478 words)

	Gefjun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She is a girl (or a virgin) and those women who are virgins when they die will serve Gefjun after their death.
		A story of the goddess: She took four oxen from the Giant World, but the oxen were actually her sons and put them by a plow.
		Gefjun is a name of a wool-company in the north of Iceland.
	www.fva.is /harpa/comenius/enggefjun.html (116 words)

	Northvegr - HRAFNAGALDUR ÓÐINS
		Gefjun may mean 'the charitable one' since it probably comes from a Germanic root meaning 'charity', and for a plant 'to thrive'.
		This stanza thus tells us that Íðunn-Nauma, while becoming Gefjun, became also charitable and powerful but she lost much of her humanity: she has no more breath since she cannot speak, she lost her lust for life since she is only able to cry, and she even lost her lá, her red color.
		Gefjun incarnates an Íðunn who became a völva, a seeress.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/hrafnagaldr/003.php (1992 words)

	Northvegr - Prose Edda - Anderson Trans.
		Elsewhere it is related that she cut the bull's hide into narrow strips and encircled therewith all the ground upn which Carthage was afterward built.
		Thus Dido deceived the Libyan king nearly as effectually as Gefjun deluded King Gylfe.
		Gefjun is usually interpreted as a goddess of agriculture, and her name is by some derived from
	www.northvegr.org /lore/prose2/037.php (986 words)

	Gefjun *
		Su Gefjun ci è stato tramandato un mito che spiega l'origine del lago svedese Mälaren.
		Gefjun, sotto le spoglie di una girovaga, aveva intrattenuto il re di Svezia Gylfi e questi volle ricompensarla con tanta terra quanta ne avrebbero arata quattro buoi in un giorno e una notte.
		Gefjun trasformò i suoi quattro figli (che aveva avuto da un gigante) in buoi e li aggiogò all'aratro, scavando con così tanta forza che il terreno venne invaso dall'acqua del mare, e formò così un lago.
	searchbox.it /Gefjun (347 words)

	Amazon.com: Gefjun: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gefjun Corona 33.55 98.5E 300 Norse fertility goddess.
		Gefjon (or Gefjun) is said to be a virgin, and all women who...
		Appendix I: The Gods GIEOFON Danish Gefjun, meaning "giver," thought to be goddess of unwed mothers and...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Gefjun&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (845 words)

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		It is told of him that he gave to a wandering woman, in return for her merry-making, a plow-land in his realm, as much as four oxen might turn up in a day and a night.
		The fourth is Gefjun: she is a virgin, and they that die maidens attend her.
		The fifth is Fulla: she also is a maid, and goes with loose tresses and a golden band about her head; she bears the ashen coffer of Frigg, and has charge over her footgear, and knows her secret counsel.
	www.wyldwytch.com /weavings/reading_room/books/norse/Edda.txt (16073 words)

	L'INGANNO DI RE GYLFI - Viaggio nell'Ásgarðr
		Non appena Gylfi le fece la sua promessa, Gefjun andò a nord, nello Jötunheimr, e là generò da un gigante quattro figli, li trasformò in buoi e li aggiogò all'aratro.
		Il vomere scavò con tanta forza e così profondamente che sciolse un enorme tratto di terra, che i buoi trascinarono sul mare verso ovest, collocandola in uno stretto.
		Gefjun diede a quella terra il nome di Sjóland e lì si stabilì, dopo aver ingradito il Danmörk.
	www.bifrost.it /GERMANI/2.Cosmogonia/01-Gylfaginning.html (2121 words)

	Freya Summary
		Freyja has therefore been connected with Gefjun, who plowed the island of Sjælland away from the Swedish mainland with the help of her four sons.
		There are indeed some striking parallels between Freyja and Gefjun, as suggested by Loki's reference (Lokasenna, st. 20) to Gefjun's seduction of a "fair-haired lad" (possibly Heimdallr) who gave her a necklace (presumably Brísingamen) in exchange for her favors.
		Though the Eddas treat them as separate deities, Gefjun can hardly be anything but a local incarnation of the omnipresent fertility goddess.
	www.bookrags.com /Freya (2118 words)

	Enciclopedia :: 100cia.com
		Gefjun ("dadora"; tambiÃ©n Gefjon, Gefyon, Gefn) era, en la mitologÃa escandinava, una vidente y diosa, un miembro de ambos, los Vanir y de los Ãsir.
		Todas las mujeres que morÃan vÃrgenes eran enviadas a sus salones, y de por esto era caracterizada como una diosa de la virtud, sin embargo tambiÃ©n era considerada una diosa de la fertilidad.
		Es enteramente concebible que Gefjun sea meramente un aspecto de ella, de la misma manera que Morrigan (en la mitologÃa celta) tiene multiplicidad de aspectos.
	www.100cia.com /enciclopedia/Gefjun (265 words)

	Freya
		However, the Vanir Freyja would have become an Áss by marrying Odin.
		Moreover, Gefyon (Gefjun), who some claim was a synonym for Freya, belonged both to the Æsir (the plural of Áss) and Vanir.
		Freya is wild: free with her sexual favours and furious when an attempt is made to marry her off against her will; the mistress of Odin and several other gods.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/f/fr/freya.html (723 words)

	Gefjun - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Estatua de Gefjun en su arado tirado por sus cuatro hijos en Copenhagen.
		Estaba asociada con el arado, las vírgenes y la buena suerte.
		Esta leyenda es conmemorada por la Fuente Gefjun de bronce en Copenhagen, esculpida por Anders Bundgaard en 1908.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gefjun (255 words)

	Snorri Sturluson: EDDA IN PROSA - L'inganno di Gylfi (Gylfaginning)
		Questa donna però era della stirpe degli Æsir ed aveva nome Gefjun.
		Ella portò da Jötunheimr, nel nord, quattro buoi che erano figli suoi e di un certo gigante.
		Là si fermò Gefjun, diede un nome a quella terra e la chiamò Selund.
	www.bifrost.it /GERMANI/Fonti/EddaSnorri-2.html (3122 words)

	Prose Edda/Gylfaginning - Wikisource
		Of him it is said that he gave to a wayfaring woman, as a reward for the entertainment she had afforded him by her story-telling, a plow-land in his realm, as large as four oxen could plow it in a day and a night.
		She took from the north, from Jotunheim, four oxen, which were the sons of a giant and her, and set them before the plow.
		The fourth is Gefjun, who is a may, and those who die maids become her hand-maidens.
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/Prose_Edda/Gylfaginning (16935 words)

	valhalla
		In Egils' saga a woman bent on suicide claimed she would not eat or drink until she supped with Freyja.
		The goddess Gefjun also received dead women, being responsible for all the girls and women who died unmarried.
		Those dying of illness, accident or old age went to the underworld realm of Hel (not to be confused with the Christian hell), overseen by Loki's daughter, also called Hel.
	odhinnschild.com /bifrost/valhalla.htm (768 words)

	arthritis pain relief - Gefjun
		In Norse mythology, Gefjun ("giver"; also Gefjon, Gefyon, Gefn) was a seeress and goddess, a member of both the Vanir and the Aesir.
		However, some claim that the legend originally referred to Vänern - which in its outline resembles Zealand.
		The goddess's name is shared with a Norse term meaning "marriage", represented by the English language as "give", meaning "wife" (see dowry), and found in the form of a Rune.
	www.painreliefchat.com /arthritis-pain-relief/Gefjon (251 words)

	Skaldskaparmal I-X
		And at evening, when it was time for drinking, Odin had swords brought into the hall, so bright that light radiated from them: and other illumination was not used while they sat at drinking.
		The n the Æsir came in to their banquet, and in the high-seats sat them down those twelve Æsir who were appointed to be judges; these were their names: Thor, Njördr, Freyr, Týr, Heimdallr, Bragi, Vídarr, Váli, Ullr, Hœnir, Forseti, Loki; and in like manner the Ásynjur: Frigg, Freyja, Gefjun, Idunn, Gerdr, Sigyn, Fulla, Nanna.
		It seemed glorious to Ægir to look about him in the hall: the wainscottings there were all hung with fair shields; there was also stinging mead, copiously quaffed.
	www.cybersamurai.net /Mythology/nordic_gods/LegendsSagas/Edda/ProseEdda/SkaldskaparmalI-X.htm (2716 words)

	The Flyting of Loki
		I know your secrets, I know your seducer's name, The white god who gave you a jewel To lay your leg over his.
		21 ODIN: You are mad, Loki,you have lost your wits, To give offense to Gefjun: She is wise, I think, and what is to come Beholds as clearly as I. 22 LOKI: Enough, Odin!
		You have never been A just judge of warriors: You have often allowed, as allow you should not, Faint-hearted fighters to win.
	www.blight.com /~sparkle/ring/poetic/lokifly.htm (2051 words)

	Baby Name GEFJUN Meaning and Origin of GEFJUN
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	Viking Answer Lady Webpage - Medical Care in the Viking Age
		It was later discovered that this was a woman skilled in magic, the concubine of an evil Viking whom Grim had killed in a duel.
		Gefjun's byname means "the full-cunning", thus "one who is skilled in magic", which suggests that part of her healing technique may have been magical, or, as Ellis-Davidson suggests above, it may be that Gefjun was not skilled as a healer at all, but set out from the start to do Grímr harm.
		Sometimes men treated wounds, especially on the battlefield, and reports of this in the Norse literature increase with the advent of Christianity.
	www.vikinganswerlady.com /medicine.shtml (5742 words)

	THE PROSE EDDA - FULL TEXT - IN FOUR PARTS - PART THREE -GYLFAGINNING [CONTINUED - BY SNORRI STURLUSON - TRANSLATED ...
		The n the Æsir came in to their banquet, and in the high-seats sat them down those twelve Æsir who were appointed to be judges; these were their names: Thor, Njördr, Freyr, Týr, Heimdallr, Bragi, Vídarr, Váli, Ullr, HSnir, Forseti, Loki; and in like manner the Ásynjur: Frigg, Freyja, Gefjun, Idunn, Gerdr, Sigyn, Fulla, Nanna.
		This tale is to the same purport as we have told before: Ægir went to Ásgard to a feast, but when he was ready to return home, he invited Odin and all the Æsir to visit him in three months' time.
		Thor was not there, having gone into the eastern lands to slay trolls.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /edda03.htm (6387 words)

	Gylfaginning 1-5
		En sú kona var ein at Ása ætt, hon er nefnd Gefjun.
		En sú kona var ein af Ása ætt, hon er nefnd Gefjun.
		Þar setti Gefjun landit ok gaf nafn ok kallaði Selund.
	www.hi.is /~eybjorn/gg/gg4par01.html (3817 words)

	Orland Kurtenblog: Petri Skriko - We Hardly Knew Thee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Credited the achievement to Gefjun, the Norse Goddess of fertility.
		(Little known fact about Gefjun: Girls who died as virgins became her servants in the afterlife, so Petri was only helping out.)
		Came up with an idea to smuggle heroin into Austria.
	orlandkurtenblog.blogspot.com /2006/07/petri-skriko-we-hardly-knew-thee.html (268 words)

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