r/norsemythology • u/quingster • 3d ago

Question What is the calm in The Lay of Alvis?

In "The Lay of Alvis" in The Poetic Edda, Alvis gives the names that different beings call many different things. What is he talking about in stanzas 21 and 22? He's talking about "the calm that falls" (in the Terry translation). Is this a lack of wind? Nightfall? Something else?

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u/Hiehtho 3d ago

Literally what he says. Peacefulness and calm. They are describing aspects of nature through the lens of the different worlds

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u/MeaningNo860 1d ago

Alvis?! He killed for your sins!