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[34]. Ihre, Dissert. de Institutione Regum Suio-Gotborum, ed. Upsala, 1752.—Geijr, Svea Rikes Häfder, tom. i. p. 432.
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[36]. Jamieson’s Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, p. 444.
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[38]. See the prose Edda published by Prof. Rask, Stockholm, 1818, ch. xxiii. But Snorre, in his Ynglinga Saga, ch. ix., says that she married Odin afterwards, and that they had many children together.