Norse mythology Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period ...

, Ítreksjóð (

Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and t ...

) is a son of Odin and a god. Ítreksjóð is attested in chapter 75 of the ''

Prose Edda The ''Prose Edda'', also known as the ''Younger Edda'', ''Snorri's Edda'' ( is, Snorra Edda) or, historically, simply as ''Edda'', is an Old Norse textbook written in Iceland during the early 13th century. The work is often assumed to have been t ...

'' book '' Skáldskaparmál'', where he is numbered among the Æsir and listed as one of Odin's sons.Faulkes (1995:156). ''Ítreksjóð'' is sometimes modernly anglicized as Itreksiod or Itreksjod.

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* Faulkes, Anthony (Trans.) (1995)

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