Vígríðr

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In Norse mythology, Vígríðr is the giant plain where Ragnarök will be fought. It is described in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning:

The Sons of Múspell shall go forth to that field which is called Vígrídr; thither shall come Fenris-Wolf also and the Midgard Serpent; then Loki and Hrym shall come there also, and with him all the Rime-Giants. All the champions of Hel follow Loki; and the Sons of Múspell shall have a company by themselves, and it shall be very bright. The field Vígrídr is a hundred leagues wide each way. Gylfaginning 51, Brodeur's translation [1]

Snorri's source was presumably Vafþrúðnismál:

Vafthruthnir spake:

17. "Speak forth now, Gagnrath, | if there from the floor

Thou wouldst thy wisdom make known:

What name has the field | where in fight shall meet

Surt and the gracious gods?"

Othin spake:

18. "Vigrith is the field | where in fight shall meet

Surt and the gracious gods;

A hundred miles | each way does it measure.

And so are its boundaries set." Vafþrúðnismál 17-18, Bellows' translation [2]

[edit] References

• Bellows, Henry Adams (transl.) (1936). The Poetic Edda. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Available online
• Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist (transl.) (1916). The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Available online

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