Norse Mythology: The Eddas and Sagas

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Her bowl turns poison-catching into an act of marital devotion (5)
• Darkness personified, she rides Hrimfaxi (4)
• Blind god who threw the mistletoe that Loki handed him (4)
• Creation's opening? The yawning void between primordial heat and cold (11)
• Her net makes the sea a catching place (3)
• Wise lawyer of Bergthorshvoll, title figure of a celebrated Icelandic saga (4)
• The past has a seat beneath the world tree: name this Norn (3)
• He puts poetry in the divine pantheon and is wed to Idunn (5)

Down

• Sturluson who gave poets a mythological handbook in the Prose Edda (6)
• Skinfaxi brings this personified daylight along for the ride (4)
• A seeress speaks: this Eddic poem spans creation, cosmic doom and renewal (7)
• Odin's jewelry has an offspring schedule: eight rings every ninth night (8)
• Odin makes his point with this spear, fashioned by Ivaldi's sons (7)
• In the Volsunga saga, Gjuki's daughter who later marries Atli (6)
• Noatun's resident deity, invoked for prosperous voyages and catches (5)

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