μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Serpent-hall.

Marvels. · Extraordinary places and things. · Extraordinary buildings and furnishings. · view the constellation · filed as F771.5.3

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“Then Thridi answered: "In that time the good abodes shall be many, and many the ill; then it shall be best to be in Gimle in Heaven. Moreover, there is plenteous abundance of good drink, for them that esteem that a pleasure, in the hall which is called Brimir: it stands in Okolnir. That too is a good hall which stands in Nida Fells, made of red gold ; its name is Sindri. In these halls shall dwell good men and pure in heart.”

The Prose Edda (Brodeur 1916), Gylfaginning LII · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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