Editing Fensalir (section)

==Theories==
In 1882, the German scholar Anton Edzardi proposed that Fensalir may point to religious practices involving [[Spring (hydrosphere)|springs]].<ref name=EDZARDI-LINDOW>Edzardi (1882:330–339) referenced in Lindow (2001:115).</ref> [[John Lindow]] comments that "I have no idea why Frigg should live in a [[bog]]gy place, despite the old argument that there is an association with a cult situated at a spring."<ref name=LINDOW114/> [[Rudolf Simek]] comments that Edzardi's theory "must remain unanswered."<ref name=SIMEK81>Simek (2007:81).</ref> In addition, Edzardi theorized a connection between Fensalir and a belief in folklore that particular swamps act as an entrance to the realm of [[Holda]], whom he connects with Frigg.<ref name=GILDERSLEEVE105>Gildersleeve (1883:105).</ref>

In a 19th-century work, [[Paul Henri Mallet]] and Walter Scott write that the "fen" element of ''Fensalir'' "may also be made to sig[nify] the watery deep, or the [[sea]]."<ref name=MALLETSCOTT550>Mallet, Scott (1847:550).</ref> This [[etymology]] has resulted in theories that the name ''Fensalir'' may mean "Sea Halls" rather than "Fen Halls." In his 19th-century translation of the ''Poetic Edda'', [[Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)|Henry Adams Bellows]] comments that "some scholars have regarded [Frigg] as a solar myth, calling her the [[solar deity|sun-goddess]], and pointing out that her home in ''Fensalir'' ("the sea-halls") symbolizes the daily setting of the sun beneath the ocean horizon."<ref name=BELLOWS15>Bellows (2004:15).</ref>

[[John Lindow]] says that due to similarity between the goddess [[Sága and Sökkvabekkr|Sága]]'s [[Sága and Sökkvabekkr|Sökkvabekkr]] and Fensalir, the open drinking between Sága and Odin, and the potential etymological basis for Sága being a seeress "have led most scholars to understand Sága as another name for Frigg."<ref name=LINDOW265>Lindow (2001:265).</ref>  [[Stephan Grundy]] states that ''Sága'' and ''Sökkvabekkr'' may be by-forms of ''Frigg'' and ''Fensalir'' used for the purpose of composing [[alliterative verse]].<ref name=GRUNDY62>Grundy (1999:62).</ref>

Britt-Mari Näsström theorizes that "Frigg's role as a fertility goddess is revealed in the name of her abode, Fensalir [...]", that Frigg is the same as Sága, and that both the names ''Fensalir'' and ''Sökkvabekkr'' "imply a goddes {{sic}} living in the water and recall the fertility goddess [[Nerthus]]."<ref name="NÄSSTRÖM88">Näsström (1996:88).</ref>