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605:and wolfish murderers
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488:ok þanns annars glepr
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713:but now must I sink.
681:nú mun hon søkkvask.
649:Bellows' translation
617:corpses of the dead,
596:She saw there wading
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785:Striker in the Dark
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660:Þar kømr inn dimmi
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453:sólu fjarri
404:Poetic Edda
379:Eddic poems
175:Orthography
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410:Grímnismál
384:Grímnismál
371:Jormungand
359:Prose Edda
334:Yggdrasill
329:Prose Edda
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145:world tree
134:anglicized
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1195:Yggdrasil
1030:Ratatoskr
1006:Yggdrasil
491:eyrarúnu.
416:The poem
408:The poem
396:Later in
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338:Niflheimr
288:Norwegian
262:Níðhöggur
155:society,
149:Yggdrasil
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781:Niðhöggr
753:Ragnarök
422:Náströnd
322:part of
187:Níðhǫggr
169:Náströnd
132:, often
125:Níðhǫggr
113:Níðhöggr
1089:and/or
892:Völuspá
635:Völuspá
418:Völuspá
390:Völuspá
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304:Nidhögg
299:Swedish
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1116:Jötnar
1114:Frost
1063:Asgard
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270:forms
268:Danish
153:Viking
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