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| | Northvegr - Rydberg's Teutonic Mythology |
 | | Volund is an elf-prince (álfa vísi, álfa ljóði - Völundarkviða 11, 14), and, as shall be shown below, when we come to consider the Volund myth exhaustively, he and his brothers and their mistresses have played parts of the very greatest importance in the epic of Teutonic mythology. |
 | | When Volund for the first time appears by this name in the Elder Edda, he is sojourning in a distant country, to which it is impossible to come without traversing the Myrkwood forest famous in the mythology (see No. 78). |
 | | Finally, it must be pointed out that when Nidhad binds Volund, the foe of the gods, this is in harmony with Mimir's activity throughout the epic of the myths as the friend of the Asa-gods, and as the helper of Odin, his sister's son, in word and deed. |
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