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IDUN, or IDUNA

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 291 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IDUN, or IDUNA  , in Scandinavian
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mythology, the goddess of youth and
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spring . She was daughter of the
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dwarf Svald and wife of
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Bragi . She was keeper of the
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golden apples, the eating of which preserved to the gods their eternal youth . Loki, the evil spirit, kidnapped her and the apples, but was forced by the gods to restore her
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liberty .
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Idun personifies the
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year between
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March and
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September, and her myth represents the
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annual imprisonment of spring by
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winter .

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