Editing Lofn (section)

==Attestations==
In chapter 35 of the ''[[Prose Edda]]'' book ''[[Gylfaginning]]'', [[High, Just-As-High, and Third|High]] provides brief descriptions of 16 [[ásynjur]]. High lists Lofn eighth and about her says that:
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:'She is so gentle and so good to invoke that she has permission from [[List of names of Odin|All-Father]] or [[Frigg]] to arrange unions between men and women, even if earlier offers have been received and unions have been banned. From her name comes the word ''lof'', meaning permission as well as high praise.'<ref name=BYOCK43>Byock (2005:43).</ref>
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In the ''Prose Edda'' book ''[[Skáldskaparmál]]'', Lofn is included among a list of 27 ásynjur names.<ref name=FAULKES157>Faulkes (1995:157).</ref> Elsewhere in ''Skáldskaparmál'', Lofn appears in a [[kenning]] for "woman" in a work by the skald [[Ormr Steinþórsson]].<ref name=FAULKES142>Faulkes (1995:142).</ref> Otherwise Lofn appears frequently as a base word in skaldic kennings for "woman."<ref name=LINDOW213>Lindow (2001:213).</ref>