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Mistilteinn

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A named sword of later Norse story, sometimes said to be mistletoe-made. Not mistletoe the plant, not Gram, and not Tyrfing.

Also known as Mistelteinn

Norse tradition

  • Mistilteinn appears in Norse tradition.

    Gylfaginning names mistilteinn (mistletoe) in Baldr’s death. A named mistilteinn episode in that prose cosmology, not mistletoe as a plant dump alone and not death-of-baldr as the whole episode already filed.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

    appears in · sourced · documented

  • Mistilteinn is used in Death of Baldr.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning names the mistletoe weapon in Baldr’s death among the gods’ games. A named dart used in that episode, not mistilteinn→appears_in→norse alone and not the plant kind as a second id.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

    used in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson

    Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.