Search results for "Norse" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Golem-like creatures appear in the folklore of other cultures. In Norse mythology, for example, Mökkurkálfi (or Mistcalfa) was a clay giant ...13 KB (2,158 words) - 04:12, 24 May 2024
- an older Scandinavian word related to Old Norse rosmhvalr, "red? whale" or "walrus." The compound Odobenus comes from odous ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- The story of the Sword in the Stone, meanwhile, is paralleled in the Norse Legend of Sigurd, who draws his father Sigmund's sword out of ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- Norse mythology also contains examples of necromancy (Ruickbie 2004, 48), such as the scene in the Völuspá in which Odin summons a seeress ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- Baffin Island with the Helluland described in Norse sagas, so it is possible that the inhabitants of the region had occasional contact with Norse sailors. ...26 KB (3,796 words) - 01:18, 17 November 2022
- the ravens Hugin and Munin, who accompany the Norse god Odin; the Celtic goddesses the Mórrígan and/or the Badb (sometimes considered separate ...26 KB (3,938 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- ** Norse Peak Wilderness ** William O. Douglas Wilderness ... ** Norse Peak Wilderness *Mount Hood National Forest Wilderness Areas ...29 KB (4,312 words) - 14:17, 29 November 2023
- from medieval times…. [In ancient Norse tradition] sacrifice carried the intent of imploring Freyr to show favor to the new year. The boar ...27 KB (4,434 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- == Old Norse == Runestone [[image:Rökstenen 2.jpg|thumb|right|The Rök Runestone, the start of Swedish literature]] [[Image:Sö 327, Gök.JPG ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
- 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
- similar (e.g. Dutch Veelvraat). The name in Old Norse, Jarfr, lives on in the regular Norwegian name jerv, regular Swedish name järv and regular Danish ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- Bjarni Herjólfsson (fl. 10th century), a Norse explorer, was the first known ... *986 – The Norse explorer Bjarni Herjólfsson sights the mainland ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- was Norway's first Christian king. Norse traditions were slowly replaced ... when Norway had been Christianized, the Norse religion and practices associated ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Norse mythology also speaks of a world-serpent and deity of the sea named Jörmungandr. Like Yam, he is the archenemy of the storm god, in this ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- In 1167, the Norse inhabitants of Dublin supported Roderic O’Connor ... After 1171, many Norse inhabitants left the old city, on the south ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- Karl Hundason was an insulting byname (Old Norse for "Churl, son of a ... Macbeth's father's second wife, a Norse woman. Duncan was defeated ...30 KB (4,672 words) - 14:58, 12 March 2023
- A thing or ting (Old Norse and Icelandic: þing; other modern Scandinavian: ting) was the governing assembly in Germanic societies, made up of ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- for myths and legends like El Cid, King Arthur, Norse and Greek mythology, and popular fictional characters like Tarzan and Mowgli from Rudyard Kipling ...28 KB (4,294 words) - 19:00, 25 October 2022
- Brûlé in 1615. Artifacts believed to be of Norse origin have been found in the area, indicating possible earlier visits by Europeans. ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- In Norse mythology, there are two swans that drink from the sacred Well of Urd in the realm of Asgard, home of the gods. According to the Prose ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 00:35, 27 February 2023
