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Skirni

In Norse mythology, Skirni is the servant of the god Freyr, who is Freyr's go-between sent to Jotunheim in Freyr's wooing of Gerdur Gymisdottir. The account of the wooing is set out in a poem in the Elder Edda, the Skirnismal.

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