Search results for "Old Norse" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Odin (Old Norse: Óðinn) is the chief god in Norse mythology whose role in the Norse pantheon is complex and multivalent: he is known as the ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 10:20, 11 March 2023
- in response, depicted the standardized Old Norse spelling as an artificial ... as an introductory text for students of Old Norse. Sigurður Nordal called ...18 KB (2,992 words) - 01:26, 4 February 2023
- Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian legends ... The Old Norse vision of the future is bleak. Norse mythology's ...33 KB (5,117 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- was one of the most important deities in Norse mythology. He was said ... Freyr was also one of the esteemed Vanir (a race of Norse gods) and ...27 KB (4,366 words) - 02:39, 1 December 2023
- her name itself means "lady" in Old Norse (cf. fru or Frau in Scandinavian ... seiðr magic to the Aesir (a clan of Norse gods). Given her various ...27 KB (4,334 words) - 12:25, 13 October 2022
- sometimes maliciously, for example the Norse Loki, but usually the trickster ... Eshu in Yoruba mythology, Loki in Norse mythology, and Wakdjunga ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- came to be adjectives describing something old, rigid, out of touch with ... ===Germanic and Norse mythology=== [[Image:Ring45.jpg|thumb|right|200 ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- Haakon Haakonsson (1204 – December 15, 1263) (Norwegian Håkon Håkonsson, Old Norse Hákon Hákonarson), also called Haakon the Old, was king ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 23:53, 29 July 2023
- Forseti (Old Norse: "chairman"; Modern Icelandic and Faroese: ... mythological role. In the standardized Old Norse orthography, the name is ...36 KB (5,860 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- The term Nix comes from the Old High German Nichus, which became nickes or niches in Middle High German before finally becoming Nix in Modern ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- legends and as Þjóðrekr and Þiðrekr in Norse mythology. During his reign ... Theodoric the Great lived at a time when the old order in Western and central ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 18:00, 30 April 2023
- words in modern English are derived from Old Norse, though of the 100 most ... each lost control of Northumbria to fresh Norse attacks before regaining ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- ideas. The mighty oak, which grows to an old age of hundreds of years, ... many years to enjoy first. In Britain, one old tradition has it that if a ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 17:31, 16 February 2023
- new home and added features from their own Norse language, transforming it ... at Southwark. He then marched down the old Roman Road of Stane Street ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- origin ("Turold," a variant of Old Norse "Thorvaldr"). ... later, southern aesthetic into the story. A Norse version of the Song of Roland ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- The Primary Chronicle (Old-Slavonic: Пов ѣ сть времяньныхъ ... and George Hamartolus, native legends and Norse sagas, several Greek religious ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- themselves into persons, such as a wise old man who, over the course of ... the mother, the father, the wise old man, and the self. Others ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- English gos with the plural gés, German Gans and Old Norse gas. Other modern derivatives are Russian gus and Old Irish géiss; the family name of the ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 01:17, 5 March 2021
- The Isle of Man was controlled by Norse, Scottish, and English lords ... of 2036 feet (621 meters). According to an old saying, from the summit one ...38 KB (5,944 words) - 21:52, 8 March 2024
- In Old Norse, the víkingr, Jan Terje Faarlund. The Syntax of Old Norse ... itself is regarded in Scandinavia as of Old Norse origin, cognate with the ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
