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2 unusual facts about Andy Orchard


Andy Orchard

Andrew 'Andy' Orchard, FRSC is a British academic and a leading expert in Old English, Norse and Celtic literature.

Gjallarhorn

Regarding this stanza, scholar Andy Orchard comments that the name Gjallarhorn may here mean "horn of the river Gjöll" as "Gjöll is the name of one of the rivers of the Underworld, whence much wisdom is held to derive", but notes that in the poem Grímnismál, Heimdallr is said to drink fine mead in his heavenly home Himinbjörg.



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