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Sökkvabekkr

The hall of the goddess Sága, set among cool, murmuring waves, where she and Odin drink together every day from golden cups.

Sökkvabekkr is the fourth of the divine dwellings that Odin lists in Grímnismál. It stands where "cool waves flow", amid their murmur, and there "daily do Othin and Saga drink / In gladness from cups of gold" Grímnismál 7.

Snorri adds only that it belongs to Sága, second of the Ásynjur, and "is a great abode" Gylfaginning 35. Neither source says anything more about the hall or about why Odin drinks there every day.

The watery setting has prompted a common suggestion: that Sökkvabekkr and Frigg's hall Fensalir, "fen-halls", are versions of the same place, and Sága a name for Frigg. The sources do not say so.

In the sources

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Sökkvabekk is the fourth, where cool waves flow, And amid their murmur it stands; There daily do Othin and Saga drink In gladness from cups of gold.
Grímnismál 7 The fourth hall in Odin's list: a drinking-place among the waters.
The second is Sága: she dwells at Søkkvabekkr, and that is a great abode.
Gylfaginning 35 Snorri assigns the hall to Sága and calls it great.

Related

Sága A goddess who drinks with Odin every day from golden cups at Sökkvabekkr, a hall among cool waves; Snorri ranks her second among the Ásynjur. Odin Óðinn Chief of the Æsir: a one-eyed god of wisdom, poetry, magic, war and the dead, who gave an eye and hanged himself on a tree for knowledge, and who dies at Ragnarök. Fensalir Frigg's hall, 'most glorious' in Snorri's words; there she wept for Baldr, and there Loki tricked her into naming the mistletoe. Frigg Odin's wife and the foremost of the goddesses: she knows the fates of all but never speaks them, and her failed attempt to protect her son Baldr is the hinge of Norse myth. Valaskjálf A silver-thatched hall built by a god for himself in ancient days; Snorri makes it Odin's hall and places the high seat Hliðskjálf inside it. Glaðsheimr The gold-bright place where Valhalla stands, according to Grímnismál; Snorri makes it the golden hall of the gods' twelve judgment seats.