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  "name": "Idunn",
  "summary": "Goddess of the Aesir, \"Ithun\" in Bellows, wife of Bragi and keeper of the apples that keep the gods young. In the Poetic Edda she appears only in Lokasenna, defending Bragi; the apples and her abduction by the giant Thjazi are told in the Prose Edda, which is why this object draws on a derived source.",
  "locale": "en",
  "tags": [
    "norse",
    "deities",
    "aesir",
    "youth"
  ],
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    {
      "rel": "consort_of",
      "target": "bragi"
    },
    {
      "rel": "related",
      "target": "loki"
    },
    {
      "rel": "related",
      "target": "skadi"
    },
    {
      "rel": "member_of",
      "target": "aesir"
    },
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      "rel": "attested_in",
      "target": "poetic-edda"
    },
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      "rel": "attested_in",
      "target": "prose-edda"
    }
  ],
  "questions": [
    "Who is Idunn?",
    "What are Idunn's apples?",
    "Who is Idunn's husband?",
    "How was Idunn kidnapped?",
    "Is Idunn in the Poetic Edda?"
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "c1",
      "text": "In the Poetic Edda Idunn speaks only in Lokasenna: she asks Bragi to weigh Loki's kinship \"Since chosen as wish-son he was\" (Lokasenna 16), Loki calls her the most lustful of women for embracing \"thy brother's slayer\" (Lokasenna 17), and she answers that she calms Bragi and will not trade insults (Lokasenna 18).",
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    },
    {
      "id": "c2",
      "text": "The brother and the slayer of Lokasenna 17 are otherwise unknown: no surviving source explains who Idunn's brother was or who killed him.",
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "confidence": 0.85
    },
    {
      "id": "c3",
      "text": "The apples are the Prose Edda's: Gylfaginning (section 26) makes Idunn Bragi's wife and keeper of a box of apples which the gods bite when they begin to age and so grow young again, until Ragnarok.",
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "confidence": 0.85
    },
    {
      "id": "c4",
      "text": "The abduction is in Skaldskaparmal: Loki, caught by the giant Thjazi in eagle form, swears to lure Idunn and her apples out of Asgard; Thjazi carries her to Thrymheim; the gods grow old and grey, force Loki to fetch her back in Freyja's falcon shape, and burn Thjazi when he pursues them over the wall of Asgard.",
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "confidence": 0.85
    },
    {
      "id": "c5",
      "text": "The Poetic Edda knows Thjazi's death and its aftermath without Idunn: Loki says \"I was first and last at the deadly fight / There where Thjazi we caught\" (Lokasenna 50), and Thjazi's daughter Skadi answers him (Lokasenna 51; Hyndluljoth 32).",
      "sources": [
        "poetic-edda-bellows"
      ],
      "confidence": 0.9
    }
  ],
  "takeaways": [
    "The Poetic Edda gives Idunn three stanzas and no apples; everything about the apples of youth comes from the Prose Edda.",
    "The abduction story is Snorri's, but its ending — the burning of Thjazi — is echoed by Loki's boast in Lokasenna 50.",
    "The \"brother's slayer\" of Lokasenna 17 is a loose end no source ties up."
  ],
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      "q": "Is Idunn in the Poetic Edda?",
      "claim": "c1"
    },
    {
      "q": "What are Idunn's apples?",
      "claim": "c3"
    },
    {
      "q": "How was Idunn kidnapped?",
      "claim": "c4"
    },
    {
      "q": "Who is Idunn's husband?",
      "claim": "c3"
    }
  ],
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  "evidence": {
    "level": "theoretical",
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    ]
  },
  "moat_flag": false,
  "winning_edge": "Says exactly which source carries which part of Idunn — Lokasenna for the goddess, the Prose Edda (via a derived summary, flagged as such) for the apples — instead of a single blended entry.",
  "confidence": 0.88,
  "last_verified": "2026-09-03",
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      ],
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