Bragi, god of poetry, is married to Iðunn, keeper of the apples of youth. In the Lokasenna, Iðunn urges Bragi not to trade insults with Loki at Ægir's feast.
Odin fathered Bragi, god of poetry, who presides over the mead of inspiration in Valhalla.
⚠ Some scholars consider Bragi a deified version of the historical 9th-century skald Bragi Boddason rather than a genuinely mythological son of Odin. Snorri's Prose Edda treats him as both.
The Æsir are the principal tribe of Norse gods who dwell in Asgard, including both native members and Vanir hostages received after the Æsir-Vanir War, as catalogued in Gylfaginning.
Ægir visited Asgard as a guest and sat beside Bragi, who entertained him through the feast with tales of the gods' exploits — the framing narrative of the entire Skáldskaparmál.
Loki mocked Bragi as a bench-ornament and coward at Ægir's feast, and Bragi offered to settle the matter with Loki's head torn from his shoulders — restrained only by Iðunn, who urged him not to trade blows with Loki in Ægir's hall.
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