Editing Sæhrímnir (section)

==Attestations==
Sæhrímnir is mentioned once in the ''Poetic Edda'' and twice in the ''Prose Edda''. In the ''Poetic Edda'' poem ''Grímnismál'', [[List of names of Odin|Grímnir]] (the god [[Odin]] in disguise) comments on the creature. Translations of the stanza vary:
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:<small>[[Benjamin Thorpe]] translation:</small>
:Andhrimnir makes, in Eldhrimnir, 
:Sæhrimnir to boil,
:of meats the best; 
:but few know how many Einheriar it feeds.<ref name="THORPE21">Thorpe (1907:21).</ref>
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:<small>[[Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)|Henry Adams Bellows]] translation:</small>
:In Eldrhimnir Andrhrimnir cooks
:Sæhrimnir’s seething flesh,—
:The best of food, but few men know
:On what fare the warriors feast.<ref name="BELLOWS-92">Bellows (1923:92).</ref> 
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:<small>[[Lee M. Hollander]] translation:</small>
:By Andhrímnir in Eldrímnir
:Sæhrímnir, the boar, is boiled,
:the best of bacons; though 'tis barely known
:what the einherjar eat.<ref name="HOLLANDER57">Hollander (1990:57).</ref>
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:<small>[[Anthony Faulkes]] translation:</small>
:Andrhrimnir has Sæhrimnir cooked in Eldrhrimnir,
:best of meats.
:But there are few that know
:on what the Einheriar feed.<ref name="FAULKES32">Faulkes (1995:32).</ref>
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|}
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In chapter 38 of the ''Prose Edda'' book ''Gylfaginning'', Gangleri (king [[Gylfi]] in disguise) comments that "you say that all those men that have fallen in battle since the beginning of the world have now come to Odin in Val-hall. What has he got to offer them food? I should have thought that there must be a pretty large number there." High replies that it is true there are a pretty large number of men there, adding many more have yet to arrive, yet that "there will seem too few when [[Fenrir|the wolf]] comes." However, High adds that food is not a problem because there will never be so many people in Valhalla that the meat of Sæhrímnir (which he specifically calls a [[boar]]) cannot sufficiently feed them. High adds that Sæhrímnir is cooked every day by the cook Andhrímnir in the pot Eldhrimnir, and is again whole every evening. High then quotes the above-mentioned ''Grímnismál'' stanza in support. Gangleri then asks if Odin eats the same, to which High responds that Odin gives the food on his table to [[Geri and Freki|his wolves]], for Odin himself consumes only wine and needs no food (and again High thereafter quotes a stanza from ''Grímnismál'' in support).<ref name="FAULKES32-33">Faulkes (1995:32—33).</ref>

A final mention of the beast appears in a list of hog names in the ''[[Nafnaþulur]]'' section of the ''Prose Edda'' book ''[[Skáldskaparmál]]''.<ref name="FAULKES164">Faulkes (1995:164).</ref>