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Edda

Edda of the first household in Rigsthula, who bears Thrall nine months later in the poem.

MythWeave AI-generated editorial illustration, Rigsthula batch

Overview

Edda brings food and sits with Ai and Rig, then bears Thrall nine months after Rig leaves. The birth stanza is damaged and Bellows’s translation involves editorial arrangement; this record keeps only her maternal place in the poem, not a verifiable social origin.

Key facts

Bears Thrall

The damaged stanza 7 places Thrall’s birth with Edda.

Limited to this surviving poem

This name is used only within the household account of the surviving Rigsthula passage; no biography beyond the poem is supplied.

Relationships

Rigshares table and bed
Rig shares a table and spends three nights in bed with Edda and Ai.
Thrallmother
The damaged stanza 7 places Thrall’s birth with Edda.

Story appearances

Rigsthula: Three Households and Young KonFigure in Rig’s three households and the Young Kon fragment
Edda of the first household in Rigsthula, who bears Thrall nine months later in the poem.

Ancient sources

MythWeave distinguishes ancient-source evidence from later adaptations and modern interpretation.

Anonymous; translated by Henry Adams Bellows, The Poetic Edda: Rigsthula, Opening prose and stanzas 1–45: the three households, Rig’s recognition, and the surviving fragment before Young Kon.

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