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Click to Expand/Collapse OptionPrologue
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionGylfaginning
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Heart 
 
 
Hjarta heitir negg.  Þat skal svá kenna, kalla korn eða stein eða epli eða hnot eða mýl eða líkt ok kenna við brjóst eða hug.  Kalla má ok hús eða jǫrð eða berg hugarins.  Brjóst skal svá kenna at kalla hús eða garð eða skip hjarta, anda eða lifrar, eljunar land, hugar ok minnis.  Hugr heitir sefi ok sjafni, ást, elskugi, vili, munr.  Huginn skal svá kenna at kalla vind trǫllkvinna ok rétt at nefna til hverja er vill ok svá at nefna jǫtnana eða kenna þá til konu eða móður eða dóttur þess.  Þessi nǫfn eru sér. Hugr heitir ok geð, þokki, eljun, þrekr, nenning, minni, vit, skap, lund, trygð.  Heitir ok hugr reiði, fjándskapr, fár, grimð, bǫl, harmr, tregi, óskap, grellskap, lausung, ótrygð, geðleysi, þunngeði, gessni, hraðgeði, óþveri. 
LXX. The heart is called grain-sheaf;  [one should periphrase it by terming it Grain or Stone or Apple or Nut or Ball, or the like, in figures of the breast or of feeling.  More over, it may be called House or Earth or Mount of Feeling.  One should periphrase the breast by calling it House or Garth or Ship of the Heart, of Breath, or of the Liver; Land of Energy, of Feeling, and of Memory].  Feeling is affection and emotion, love, passion, desire, love-longing.  [Passion should be periphrased by calling it Wind of Troll Women; also it is correct to name what one soever is desired, and to name giants, periphrasing giantesses as Woman or Mother or Daughter of the Giants.]  Feeling is also called mood, liking, eagerness, courage, activity, memory, understanding, (239,1) temper, humor, good faith.  It is also wrath, enmity, mischievousness, grimness, balefulness, grief, sorrow, ill-will, spite, falseness, faithlessness, fickleness, light-mindedness, baseness, hasty temper, violence. 
               
 
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