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In , Bestla ( ) is the mother of the gods Odin, Vili and Vé by way of Borr, the sister of an unnamed being who assisted Odin, and the daughter or, depending on source, granddaughter of the jötunn Bölþorn. Bestla is attested in the ''Poetic Edda'', compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the ''Prose Edda'', written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the poetry of skalds. Some scholars have theorized that Bestla’s unnamed brother is Mímir. ==Attestations== In the ''Poetic Edda'', Bestla receives a single mention. This sole attestation appears in the poem ''Hávamál'' 140, where Odin recounts his gaining of nine magical songs from Bestla’s unnamed brother—in other words, Odin’s maternal uncle: In his translation of the ''Poetic Edda'', Henry Adams Bellows comments that the placement of the stanza at the point in which it appears in ''Hávamál'' appears to be the result of manuscript interpolation and that its meaning is obscure.〔 In the ''Prose Edda'' book ''Gylfaginning'', the enthroned figure of High tells Gangleri (described as king Gylfi in disguise) of the genealogy of the god Odin. High recounts that Odin, Vili, and Vé are the children of Borr and Bestla, and that Bestla is the daughter of Bölþorn, who High says is a ''jötunn''.〔Faulkes (1995:11).〕 Bestla receives a second mention in the ''Prose Edda'' book ''Skáldskaparmál'', where a work by the skald Einarr refers to Odin as "Bestla's son".〔Faulkes (1995:69).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bestla」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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