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IDUN, or IDUNA

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 291 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IDUN, or IDUNA , in Scandinavian See also:mythology, the goddess of youth and See also:spring. She was daughter of the See also:dwarf Svald and wife of See also:Bragi. She was keeper of the See also: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 See also:liberty. Idun personifies the See also:year between See also:March and See also:September, and her myth represents the See also:annual imprisonment of spring by See also:winter.

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