Motif
Happy hall on a mountain after destruction
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A motif of the Flood, Fire, and Cosmic Renewal family, within the sub-family Radiant Halls, Mountain Halls, and the Peaceful World to Come. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
norse
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The Poetic Edda VOLUSPO / THE WISE-WOMANS PROPHECY / INTRODUCTORY NOTE / NOTES; lines 1516-1627 confidence: medium
Note 64 says Snorri quotes the stanza, treats Gimle as the hall itself, while here it appears to be a mountain on which the hall stands; Gimle is the home of the happy and is contrasted with another hall for the dead.
Gimle appears as a mountain on which a hall stands and is identified as the home of the happy.
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