Fenja and Menja
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Fenja and Menja (Gróttasöngr). Book illustration from Fredrik Sander's Swedish edition of the 1893 Lieder-Edda. Engraving by Gunnar Forssell after Carl Larsson .
Fenja and Menja are two giants of the song Edda . They operate a magical mill in the old Norse poetry Gróttasöngr .
See also
literature
- Rudolf Simek: Religion and Mythology of the Teutons. Darmstadt 2003.
- Fenja and Menja . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 10 : Gossler-Harris . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1909, Sp. 374 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).