Grimnismal ("the Sayings of Grimnir") is spoken by Odin, travelling in disguise as Grimnir, tortured between two fires by a king he has come to test after being fed and comforted only by the king's young son. Odin delivers a long cosmological monologue naming the halls of the gods, the geography of the nine worlds and the tree Yggdrasil, and lists twelve valkyries by name, before revealing his true identity and pronouncing the king's doom.
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Position in the CanonPoem of the gods, Codex Regius collection 1 Literary form (class) Connections
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Odin, Deities This source names Odin directly: "Sayings of Grimnir") is spoken by Odin, travelling in disguise as Grimnir, tortured between two fires by a king he has come to test after being fed and comforted only by the king's young son."
Source The Poetic EddaAnonymous (Codex Regius)
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Source The Poetic EddaAnonymous (Codex Regius)
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1. The Poetic Edda
Anonymous (Codex Regius), The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1923GrimnismalQuote, Grimnismal
The Poetic Edda: Grimnismal is composed in Old Norse alliterative verse, one of the eddic poems.
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