
King Gylfe ruled the lands that are now called Svithjod (Sweden). Of him it is said that he gave to a wayfaring woman as a reward for the entertainment she had afforded him by her story-telling a plow-land in his realm as large as four oxen could plow it in a day and a night But this woman was of the asa-race; her name was Gefjun.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
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1179–1241
Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.
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