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	Wikipedia: Riddle
		The god Odin was a master of riddle lore, and sparred with several of his foes using contests of riddles.
		In the Vafthruthnismal, Odin defeats his foe by posing a question only he could possibly know the answer to.
		In Greek mythology, riddles were the province of the Sphinx, a female monster who challenged passersby with riddles; those who failed to guess them were devoured.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/r/ri/riddle.html (444 words)

	Baldur
		As he was carried to the ship, Odin whispered in his ear.
		This was to be a key riddle asked by Odin (in disguise) of the giant Vafthruthnir (and which was, of course, unanswerable) in the Vafthruthnismal.
		The dwarf Lit was kicked by Thor into the funeral fire and burnt alive.
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/b/ba/baldur.html (852 words)

	Baldur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As he was carried to the ship, Odin whispered in his ear.
		This was to be a key riddle asked by Odin (in disguise) of the giant Vafthruthnir (and which was, of course, unanswerable) in the Vafthruthnismal.
		The dwarf Lit was kicked by Thor into the funeral fire and burnt alive.
	uncover.us /en/wikipedia/b/ba/baldur.html (852 words)

	At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill
		The passage quoted by Snorri comes from the poem Vafthruthnismal, which gives no further contextual clues, except for an apparently unrelated reference to one Mundilfoeri, who is said to be the father of the sun and moon.
		The nearest Vafthruthnismal comes to a mill is Bergelmir's luthr - the only other candidates in Scandinavian tradition are the mill Grotti and the mill of Amloi.
		As Vafthruthnismal says, Mundilfri is the father of the sun and moon; and the poem Voluspa asserts that it was at the first appearance of the two great celestial lights that the reckoning of time began.
	stavacademy.co.uk /mimir/cosmicmill.htm (2266 words)

	At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill
		The passage quoted by Snorri comes from the poem Vafthruthnismal, which gives no further contextual clues, except for an apparently unrelated reference to one Mundilfoeri, who is said to be the father of the sun and moon.
		The nearest Vafthruthnismal comes to a mill is Bergelmir's luthr - the only other candidates in Scandinavian tradition are the mill Grotti and the mill of Amloi.
		As Vafthruthnismal says, Mundilfri is the father of the sun and moon; and the poem Voluspa asserts that it was at the first appearance of the two great celestial lights that the reckoning of time began.
	www.stavacademy.co.uk /mimir/cosmicmill.htm (2266 words)

	Vafthruthnismal
		The Vafthruthnismal ("The Lay of Vafthruthnir") is a conversation in verse form in the Elder Edda conducted initially between the Æsir Odin and Frigg, and subsequently between Odin and the giant Vafthruthnir.
		The poem goes into much detail about the Norse cosmogony and was evidently used extensively as a source document by Snorri Sturluson in the construction of the Younger Edda.
		With my doomed tongue the fall of the gods
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/va/Vafthruthnismal.html (308 words)

	Baldr -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As he was carried to the ship, ((Norse mythology) ruler of the Aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of Frigg; identified with the Teutonic Wotan) Odin whispered in his ear.
		This was to be a key riddle asked by Odin (in disguise) of the giant (Click link for more info and facts about Vafthruthnir) Vafthruthnir (and which was, of course, unanswerable) in the (Click link for more info and facts about Vafthruthnismal) Vafthruthnismal.
		The dwarf Lit was kicked by ((Norse mythology) god of thunder and rain and farming; pictured as wielding a hammer emblematic of the thunderbolt; identified with Teutonic Donar) Thor into the funeral fire and burnt alive.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/baldr.htm (1094 words)

	A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The god Odin was a master of riddle lore, and sparred with several of his foesusing contests of riddles.
		In the Vafthruthnismal, Odindefeats his foe by posing a question only he could possibly know the answer to.
		In the Hebrew Bible, the hero Samson proposes a riddle to the Philistines, which centered aroundSamson's discovery of honey in the carcass of a lion.
	www.eurostudent.net /info/22117-a-riddle-wrapped-in-a-mystery-inside-a... (1641 words)

	The riddles page
		The god Odin was a master of riddle lore, and sparred with several of embry riddle his foes using contests of riddles.
		In the Vafthruthnismal, Odin defeats his foe by posing a question only he five for fighting riddle could possibly know the answer word riddles to.
		The poetic form became very popular in Victorian times, when each line of a classic riddle would describe individual letters math riddles or syllables of the solution, with the last line describing the complete answer, for example,
	www.govintelligence.com /Pitb-to-Tact/riddles.html (1372 words)

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