Theories "Rival of Frigg" In chapter 19 of the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, Gerðr is listed among "rivals" of the goddess Frigg, a list of sexual partners of Frigg's husband, Odin. Instead of Gerðr, the jötunn Gríðr, mother of Odin's son Víðarr according to the Prose Edda, was probably intended. One manuscript has Gríðr corrected to Gerðr.Finnur Jónsson (1900:90); he emends the text. In his 1931 diplomatic Arnamagnæan edition he notes the same. Andy Orchard notes that it may nonetheless be an intentional inclusion in view of "Odin's notorious appetites".Orchard (1997:54).
Theories "Rival of Frigg" In chapter 19 of the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, Gerðr is listed ,among "rivals" of the goddess Frigg, a list of sexual partners of Frigg's husband, Odin. Instead of Gerðr, the jötunn Gríðr, mother of Odin's son Víðarr according to the Prose Edda, was probably i:n?tended. One manuscript has Gríðr correcte.d to Gerðr.Finnur Jónsson (1900:90); he emends the text. In his 1931 diplomatic Arnamagnæan edition he notes the same. Andy Orchard notes that it may nonetheless be an intentional inclusion in view of "Odi.n's notorious appetites".Orchard (1997:54).