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Also Frey, the regent of the gods, took his abode not far from Upsala, where he exchanged for a ghastly and infamous sin-offering the old custom of prayer by sacrifice, which had been used by so many ages and generations. For he paid to the gods abominable offerings, by beginning to slaughter human
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Frey built a great temple at Upsal, made it his chief seat, and gave it all his taxes, his land, and goods. Then began the
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of the runic poem refers to Scandinavians living east of the Danes proper (i.e. Swedes and Geats).
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Anglo-Saxon
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