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'Glæsisvellir' (glittering plains) was a location in Jotunheim in Norse mythology. It is mentioned in sources, such as ''Bósa saga ok Herrauds'' and ''Hervarar saga''.
In the Glæsisvellir could be found a location called 'Odinsaker', or 'Údáinsakr' "Deathless Acre", and everyone who went there became healthy and young, and so no one ever died in Odinsaker. The ''Eireks saga víðförla'' is about a man who searched for and found Údáinsakr.
In ''Gesta Danorum'', Saxo Grammaticus makes a reference to Odinsaker as the place where the Scanian governor Fialler retired after having been attacked by the Danish king Wiglek:

Fiallerum Scaniae praefectum exsilio adegit, quem ad locum, cui Undensakre nomen est, nostris ignotum populis concessisse est fama.[1]

Fialler, the governor of Skaane, he drove into exile; and the tale is that Fialler retired to a spot called Undensakre, which is unknown to our peoples.[2]

In the Hervarar saga, it is the kingdom of Gudmund and his son Höfund. Gudmund was a friendly giant who was popular in later sagas.

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★ Elysium

★ Blessed Isle

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★ Teutonic mythology