hjathnings

Updated: May 29, 2025

This is not in the song, though it has lived longer popularly than the earlier part. Dr. Rydberg identities Frodi with Frey, the God of fertility. The Everlasting Battle. No Eddic poem survives on the battle of the Hjathnings, the story of which is told in prose by Snorri.

L. Winifred Faraday - The Edda, Volume 2: The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology,: Romance, and Folklore, No. 13