IDUN, or IDUNA

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IDUN, or IDUNA , in Scandinavian

mythology

MYTHOLOGY

, the goddess of youth and

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

. She was daughter of the

dwarf

DWARF (A.S. dweorg, D. dwerg, Icel. dvergr)

Svald and wife of

Bragi

BRAGI

. She was keeper of the

golden

GOLDEN

apples, the eating of which preserved to the gods their eternal youth. Loki, the evil spirit, kidnapped her and the apples, but was forced by the gods to restore her liberty. Idun personifies the year between

March

MARCH
MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in
French
appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to
beat
- BEAT (a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat. battere)
the road with the
regular
- REGULAR
tread of a soldier: cf.
MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
MARCH, EARLS OF
MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

and September, and her myth represents the annual imprisonment of

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

by winter.

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