Bragi Boddason
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Bragi Boddason, known as Bragi the Old was a Norwegian skald active in the first half of the 9th century, the earliest known skald from whom verses have survived. Portions of his Ragnarsdrápa are pres
Drawing of Bragi by Carl Wahlbom
Bragi by Wahlbom
Bragi
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Bragi is a figure in Norse mythology, and the god of poetry according to Snorri. The Prose Edda, Lokasenna and Grettis saga all portray him as the husband of the goddess Iðunn.
Bragi Boddason
…her to reinstate her own sons. This story and the story of his confronting a troll-woman, are probably legends. Bragi has the same name as the god Bragi, which has led some to doubt his historicity, but there are enough mentions of him to attest to his having lived, so that it is likely he was deified…
Bragi is shown with a harp and accompanied by his wife Iðunn in this 19th-century painting by Nils Blommér.
Bragi, holding a harp, sings before his wife Iðunn (1895) by Lorenz Frølich.
Loki Taunts Bragi (1908) by W. G. Collingwood.