Originally Posted by
Helga
have you read the poem Blóðhófnir by an Icelandic poet Gerður Kristný? It is very good and has been translated to English, though I know Icelandic is not a problem for you and it looses a lot in the translation because she plays with words that mean both body and earth in icelandic, like 'svörð'. She looks at this from Gerður's point of view, it's not accurate to skírnismál in every single way but it's very good and her point is that Gerður gets herself together in the end and is stronger than Freyr.