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Quotation from The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

“There grows a tree-sprout alone westward of Valhall: it is called Mistletoe; I thought it too young to ask the oath of.”

Snorri Sturluson (spoken by Frigg)

The Prose Edda, Gylfaginning XLIX, trans. Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (1916)

Portrait of Snorri Sturluson

Frigg innocently tells a disguised Loki the one thing she did not bind by oath to spare Baldr.

Citation: "There grows a tree-sprout alone westward of Valhall: it is called Mistletoe; I thought it too young to ask the oath of." — Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda, Gylfaginning XLIX, trans. Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (1916). (id prose-edda-q4)

Portrait: Snorre Sturluson-Christian Krohg, Christian Krohg, Public domain.

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