Welcome to Norse Myths, Legends, and Folktales, where MyLinda Butterworth of Totally Stories interprets the written word for your listening pleasure. Today we learn how a so-called beggar woman stole a portion of the land of Sweden and made what we know as Zealand in ‘Gylfi and Gefion.'

A wise beggar woman shares her food and wisdom and entertains a stranger who announces the next morning that he is the king of Sweden and for her great generosity, he gives her as much land as she can till in one day and one night. They both go their separate ways. The beggar woman was really in disguise and was actually the Goddess Gefion. Gefion goes to find her four sons, who are oxen, and they go to Sweden to find the most fertile ground to call their own. How much land did Gefion and her sons obtain? You will have to listen in to hear the whole story.

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