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Iðavöllr

The plain where the gods meet again after ruin in Norse speech. Not Asgard as the enclosed home alone, and not a meadow dump.

Also known as Idavoll · Idavöll

Norse tradition

Iðavöllr appears in Norse tradition.
Völuspá in the Poetic Edda names Iðavöllr as the plain where the gods meet again after ruin. A named post-ruin meeting-plain in that poem, not Asgard as the enclosed home alone and not a meadow dump.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.