Search results for "Norse" - New World Encyclopedia
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- " "Eroica," "Norse" and "Keltic," as well as the piano miniatures for which he became best known. MacDowell ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 23:45, 12 February 2024
- Systema Naturae. The name is based on the Old Norse word nár, meaning "corpse," in reference to the animal's pigmentation. In some parts ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- 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
- Trees of mythology include the Norse world tree Yggdrasil and the Austras Koks of Latvian mythology. In Norse mythology, the first humans were ...33 KB (4,675 words) - 12:40, 18 April 2023
- Eastern parts had previously been visited by the Norse, Basque, and Breton fishermen, and perhaps the Corte-Real brothers and John Cabot (in addition ...17 KB (2,708 words) - 12:31, 6 November 2021
- In Norse mythology the sea giantess Rán uses a fishing net to trap lost sailors. ==Gallery== Image:BD-fishermen.jpg|Fishermen in Bangladesh ...17 KB (2,692 words) - 17:32, 28 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
- deepened and expanded to include Egyptian and Norse mythology. He was a contemporary of John Betjeman and Anthony Blunt, forming a lifelong friendship ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 04:06, 4 November 2022
- god Vishnu possessed human forms and qualities. Norse myths spoke of twelve great gods and twenty-four goddesses who lived in a region above the ...17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
- hag– part of the word is derived from the Old Norse hoggva or the Icelandic haggw, meaning 'to hew' or strike with a sharp weapon, relating ...18 KB (2,829 words) - 16:42, 21 January 2024
- According to Norse mythology, the god of thunder, Thor, has a chariot that is pulled by several goats. At night when he sets up camp, Thor will ...18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
- other than the upper half of Tiamat, just as the Norse sky may consist simply of Ymir's unmodified skull. Consequently, unlike radical transformations ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- such virtues in ancient German folk songs and Norse poetry and mythology. After becoming the General Superintendent in 1776, Herder's philosophy ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- Artemis; mythical beings such as the Valkyries of Norse legend and the Amazons of Greek story; and historical figures such as the first century Celtic ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- above Lake of the Clouds. Its name refers to a Norse myth about a world in the sky that was accessed from Earth by a rainbow. The room was given this ...19 KB (2,927 words) - 15:25, 27 November 2023
- In Norse sagas the city is mentioned as the capital of Gardariki (i.e., the East Slavic lands). Four Viking kings—Olaf I of Norway, Olaf II ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 14:59, 3 May 2023
- Anglo-Saxon conquest of eastern Britain. The Norse demigod Sigurd, or Siegfried, was historicized in the Nibelungenlied by associating him with a famous ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 11:02, 16 August 2023
- and explored the eastern Canadian coast. Norse literature speaks of skrælingar, most likely an undifferentiated label for all the native peoples ...53 KB (8,160 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
- may come from the Common Germanic verb smeugan (Old Norse smjúga) meaning "to creep into a hole." Alternatively, it may come from the Middle ...21 KB (3,255 words) - 21:20, 30 January 2023
- *Nine is a significant number in Norse Mythology. Odin hung himself on an ash tree for nine days to learn the runes. *The name of the area called ...22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
