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Saegr The bucket the children Bil and Hjuki used to carry water from the well, according to Snorri Sturluson in Gylfaginning, part of his
Prose Edda. While carrying the bucket, the children were taken up to Heaven by the Moon so that they could forever follow him.
Saehrimnir( SÆhrimnir; Sooty) The magical boar of Valhalla that each day was killed and cooked by the gods’ chef Andhrimnir in the giant kettle Eldhrimnir. Saehrimnir returned to life each night, only to be butchered the next day.
Saehrimnir was the best of pigs, and later the best of hams, but few knew, according to the poem
Grimnismal, that he was the food source of the daily banquet held for the Einherjar, the dead human warriors who had fought in battle all day. According to Snorri Sturluson in Gylfaginning, never would there be so many fallen heroes in Valhalla that Saehrimnir would not have enough flesh to feed them.
Saeming A son of the great Norse god Odin, perhaps invented by the 13th-century Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson or by rulers of ancient Norway.
According to Snorri in the introduction to three of his great works, Odin was a powerful leader from central Asia who traveled north through Europe to Sweden, establishing two of his sons as rulers of kingdoms along the way. Near the end of his journey, Odin traveled north to the coast. There he made his son, Saeming, king. This interpretation of myths as the stories of real humans is known as euhemerism.
Many historical rulers of Norway traced their ancestry to Saeming, and he became a father figure, a great ancestor, to the powerful families in that region. Scholars believe the rulers of the lands in Scandinavia may have created the stories of Saeming and his brothers to connect their histories to the legends of the gods.
In another part of his Prose Edda, Snorri also wrote that Skade, daughter of the frost giant Thjazzi, was Saeming’ s mother.
Saemund Sigfússon( SÆmund Sigfusson; Saemund the Learned)( 1056 – 1133) Icelandic historian and Catholic priest; author of an important history of the kings of Norway that has been lost. Later authors made use of Saemund’ s history and discussed its importance in their own works.
Before 1900, literary scholars and experts believed Saemund wrote the Poetic Edda, a collection of ancient Norse poetry found in the Codex Regius and other manuscripts. They referred to these poems as Saemund’ s Edda. Based on detailed studies of the language and style of these old poems, experts no longer believe that Saemund had any connection to the Poetic Edda. Many books in libraries, however, still list him as the author.
Saga( 1) An Old Norse word meaning“ story.” The sagas were stories in prose or verse dating from the early 11th to the mid-14th centuries, first written down about 1200. There were family sagas about early Icelandic settlers; sagas of the kings, which were semihistorical stories about the kings of Norway; and heroic sagas, which told of legendary heroes and fantastic adventures. The Volsunga Saga( late 13th century) is a good example of a heroic saga. Many are now available in English in books and on the Internet.
Saga( 2) A female goddess, one of the Asynjur.( The first a in her name is a long a, making the pronunciation different from Saga [ 1 ], a type of story.) Little is known of Saga except that she lived in the great hall known as Sokkvabekk, where she often
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