The Rejuvenating One, The Ever Young, Wife of Bragi, The God's Lady, Keeper of the Fruit of the Gods, The Cure for Old Age, The Sparrow in the Dales
Idunn, born of the line of Elfs; Also sometimes born of the Disir or even the Dwarfs, is the goddess who tends the fruit of the gods, loving wife of the Skaldic God Bragi.
While Idunn can be oft forgot due to her lack of grand escapades, her role is one of the most important among the Eddic Gods. Fore it is she who keeps the gods youthful and strong, ridding them of old age with the very fruit she grows in her Orchards. Yet the location of her Orchard varies from tale to tale. At times it is within the walls of Asgard. Yet at other times she; like many elfs, is said to dwell among the Dales of Yggdrasil. Though it could be said as a God of the Orchard she dwells in all the orchards of our people.
She along with Sif and Freya, is a much sought after God protected and valued by the Aesir; in part due to her skills in the orchard, as the Aesir alone seem afflicted by age. Though other tribes of gods suffer not of such maladies they still desire her greatly.
Idunn like her husband Bragi is not known for any grand adventures, instead she is remarkable for her dutiful nature and innocence of mind. Though she is not completely absent adventures either, in her most famous tale the powerful Jotun Thiazi steals her away. As Loki who himself had been forced to lure her away from the Aesir by the very same Thiazi, doing so by proposing that there were great wild fruits away from Ásgardr that she might forage thus adding to her Orchard. After which time that Loki escaped himself he then returned to rescue her, the details of which very story to story.
It is also said that once she fell while tending the fruit upon Yggdrasil itself and that what she had seen scarred her so deeply that she still bears it's mark upon her heart, for this the other Gods had given her a Wolf Skin to wear as a comfort against what she had witnessed.
Over all we must not forget she is the goddess that perpetuates, it is she who gives the gifts of the forager, the gatherer, the orchard keeper, and the subtle romances therein. The kind of Romances born only from ballads sung under trees by lovesick hearts.
Without her the continuation of the Gods and the people themselves would falter, so she continues to tend her Orchard to preserve all that may be.