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Bridge
A crossing over gap or water. Bifrost talk and river spans are different meetings with the same job of crossing.
Roman religion
Bridge appears in Roman religion.
Caesar’s Gallic War narrates the timber bridge built across the Rhine. A named bridge work in that campaign speech, not aqueduct as a water channel and not a pontoon dump alone.
from Julius Caesar · Gallic War, c. 50s BCE
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Norse tradition
Bridge appears in Norse tradition.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning names Bifröst as the bridge between worlds that the gods ride. A named bridge in that prose cosmology, not Caesar’s Rhine timber bridge and not a rainbow-only flatten without the crossing job.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Bridge appears in Asgard.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning has the gods ride Bifröst, the bridge, into Ásgarðr. A named bridge appearing at that gods’ home, not bridge→appears_in→norse as tradition kind alone and not the rainbow folk-name alone.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Bridge appears in Ragnarök.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning has Bifröst break when Muspell’s host rides it at Ragnarök. A named bridge appearing in that ruin, not bridge→appears_in→asgard as the peace-time crossing alone and not muspelheim as the fire-host alone.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Shinto
Bridge appears in Shinto.
The Kojiki places Izanagi and Izanami on the Floating Bridge of Heaven (Ame-no-ukihashi) when they stir the sea. A named heavenly bridge in that cosmogony, not Caesar’s Rhine timber bridge and not Bifröst under another spelling.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Hellenic religion
Bridge appears in Hellenic religion.
Pausanias notes bridges among ordinary Greek travel and sanctuary approaches. A named bridge in that periegesis, not a pontoon-bridge Herodotus dump and not a mystical crossing slogan.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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sources
- Gallic War · Julius Caesar
Caesar, Bellum Gallicum.
- Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.
- Kojiki · Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation)
Donald L. Philippi, Kojiki.
- Description of Greece · Pausanias
Pausanias, Description of Greece.