Search results for "Norse paganism" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller or rustic ... and anthropologists avoid the term "paganism" when referring to ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- pagan, devoting himself to the Slavic-Norse deities, establishing numerous ... his housekeeper Malusha, described in the Norse sagas as a prophetess who ...12 KB (1,795 words) - 20:46, 3 May 2023
- beings. Moreover, in the sources for Norse mythology, "troll" ... have lived on for some time after the Old Norse literature was documented ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 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
- The earliest preserved examples of Old Norse literature are the Eddic ... Old Norse poetry encompasses a range of verse forms written in Old ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
- The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved ... and after the Christianization of the Norse peoples are written texts ...21 KB (3,478 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- Odin (Old Norse: Óðinn) is the chief god in Norse mythology whose ... ==Odin in a Norse Context== Odin's name derives from the Proto ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 10:20, 11 March 2023
- [[Image:Yggdrasil.jpg|thumb|The Norse "world tree" Yggdrasil]] ... In Germanic paganism, trees played a prominent role, appearing in ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 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
- of the fifth century and sixth centuries C.E. Old Norse parallels of the legend survive in the Völsunga saga, the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda, the ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- ==Norse paganism== A basic altar, called a non|hörgr , was used for sacrifice in Norse paganism. The non|hörgr ...49 KB (7,532 words) - 23:19, 9 May 2024
- to the indigenous culture, renouncing paganism and converting to Christianity ... began to lose much of its Germanic and Norse vocabulary, although it retained ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- Iona is a small island located in the north-west region of Scotland that forms part of the Inner Hebrides. Though small in size, this island ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 11:11, 6 March 2024
- figure of Saint Nicholas of Myra, as well as on Norse myths associated with the god Odin, and American commercial culture. The modern depiction ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 03:18, 23 December 2022
- In Old Norse, the víkingr, Jan Terje Faarlund. The Syntax of Old Norse ... on the Skagerrak, from where the first Norse merchant-warriors originated ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- peoples as a tribute to Freyr, a god in Germanic Paganism associated with boars, harvest, and fertility.H. R. Ellis Davidson. Gods And Myths Of Northern ...27 KB (4,434 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- be expanded to include the areas where Old Norse was spoken and where the ... Faroese, which are descended from Old West Norse. Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- believe are ultimately derived from Old Norse). This name is not recorded ... quot; and "glorious" in Old Norse, respectively). ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- meant "people of the Swedes" (Old Norse Svíþjóð, Latin Suetidi ... Before the eleventh century, Swedes adhered to Norse paganism, worshiping ...40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
- time was composed of Slavic, Finnic, and Norse peoples, among which the ... have uncovered no traces of a Slavic-Norse settlement in the Crimea ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
