Bragi

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Bragi (Old Norse) 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.

In skaldic poetry, Bragi appears as a resident of Valhalla who welcomes fallen kings. In Snorri's Prose Edda, Bragi is presented as a god of poetry, renowned for eloquence among the gods (Æsir). In the Poetic Edda, Bragi is only sparsely attested: he is named as "the most pre-eminent of poets" in Grímnismál; appears among the gods at Ægir's feast in Lokasenna, where he exchanges insults with Loki and is defended by his wife Iðunn; and is mentioned in connection with runes in Sigrdrífumál.

Modern scholarship generally understands Bragi as a figure that emerged through the posthumous mythologization of the 9th-century skald Bragi Boddason, traditionally reckoned as the first skald, rather than from an originally independent pre-Christian cult.

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