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Mead is a drink widely considered to have been discovered likely among the first humans in Africa 20,000–40,000 years ago [17] [18] [19] [better source needed] prior to the advent of both agriculture and ceramic pottery in the Neolithic, [20] due to the prevalence of naturally occurring fermentation and the distribution of eusocial honey-producing insects worldwide; [21] as a result, it is ...
The dwarves begged for Suttungr to spare their life and offered him the magical mead of poetry. Suttungr took it and hid it in the center of the mountain Hnitbjorg, with his daughter Gunnlöð standing guard, whom he turned into a witch in order to guard it. [1] Odin eventually decided to obtain the mead.
The comic book The Magic Mead in the Danish comic book series Valhalla, created by Peter Madsen and others, is a retelling of the story of the mead of poetry. [2] Peter Madsen won The SAS Prize for Best Nordic for this comic at the Raptus Festival in Bergen, Norway. [3]
Suttungr put the dwarves on a rock about to be submerged, at which point they bargained for their life by offering him the mead of poetry. In Nordic mythology, Fjalar (Old Norse: Fjalarr [ˈfjɑlɑrː]) and his brother Galar (Old Norse: Galarr [ˈɡɑlɑrː]), were wicked dwarfs who killed Kvasir and turned his blood into the mead of poetry ...
The two mixed his blood with honey, thus creating the Mead of Poetry, a mead which imbued the drinker with skaldship and wisdom, and the spread of which eventually resulted in the introduction of poetry to mankind. Kvasir is attested in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century, and in the poetry of ...
In Valhalla, the einherjar eat their fill of the nightly resurrecting beast Sæhrímnir, and valkyries bring them mead from the udder of the goat Heiðrún. The einherjar prepare daily for the events of Ragnarök, when they will advance for an immense battle at the field of Vígríðr.
"Freya" (1882) by Carl Emil Doepler. In Norse mythology, Fólkvangr (Old Norse "field of the host" [1] or "people-field" or "army-field" [2]) is a meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja where half of those that die in combat go upon death, whilst the other half go to the god Odin in Valhalla.
Bragi tells the origin of the mead of poetry from the blood of Kvasir and how Odin obtained this mead. He then goes on to discuss various poetic metaphors known as kennings . Snorri Sturluson clearly distinguishes the god Bragi from the mortal skald Bragi Boddason , whom he often mentions separately.