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Bifröst
In Norse mythology, Bifröst ( or sometimes Bilröst or Bivrost) is a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (the world) and Asgard, the realm of the gods. The bridge is attested as ''Bilröst'' in the ''Poetic Edda''; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and as ''Bifröst'' in the ''Prose Edda''; written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the poetry of skalds. Both the ''Poetic Edda'' and the ''Prose Edda'' alternately refer to the bridge as Asbrú (Old Norse "Æsir's bridge").〔Simek (2007:19).〕
According to the ''Prose Edda'', the bridge ends in heaven at Himinbjörg, the residence of the god Heimdallr, who guards it from the jötnar. The bridge's destruction during Ragnarök by the forces of Muspell is foretold. Scholars have proposed that the bridge may have originally represented the Milky Way and have noted parallels between the bridge and another bridge in Norse mythology, Gjallarbrú.
==Etymology==
Scholar Andy Orchard posits that ''Bifröst'' may mean "shimmering path." He notes that the first element of ''Bilröst''—''bil'' (meaning "a moment")—"suggests the fleeting nature of the rainbow," which he connects to the first element of ''Bifröst''—the Old Norse verb ''bifa'' (meaning "to shimmer" or "to shake")—noting that the element provokes notions of the "lustrous sheen" of the bridge.〔Orchard (1997:19).〕 Austrian Germanist Rudolf Simek says that ''Bifröst'' either means "the swaying road to heaven" (also citing ''bifa'') or, if ''Bilröst'' is the original form of the two (which Simek says is likely), "the fleetingly glimpsed rainbow" (possibly connected to ''bil'', perhaps meaning "moment, weak point").〔Simek (2007:36-37).〕
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