Lyfjaberg

"Healing mountain." A hill or mountain that has healing properties. It is where Menglöð and her nine handmaidens sit. Lyfjaberg is attested in the eddic poem Fjölsvinnsmál:

Hyfiaberg 'tis called,

and long it has a solace been

to the bowed-down and sorrowful:

each woman becomes healthy,

although a year's disease she has,

if she can but ascend it.

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