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- Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian legends and religious beliefs of the Scandinavian people and Northern Germanic tribes ...33 KB (5,117 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
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- Bragi is the god of poetry in Norse mythology. Given the prominent role that poetry played in Nordic society (as it was the primary means of ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 14:56, 28 April 2020
- recounts a number of stories out of Norse mythology while explicating ... in them. In addition, Sturluson's Old Norse, while quite different from ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- Leif Ericson (Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson) (c. 970 – c. 1020 C.E.) was a Norse explorer thought to be the first European to have landed in ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 19:05, 25 October 2022
- Iðunn (romanized "Idun") is one of the goddesses of the Norse pantheon. She is best known in two unrelated roles: as the wife of Bragi ...15 KB (2,466 words) - 15:58, 12 February 2024
- Loki (sometimes referred to by his full name, Loki Laufeyjarson) is the god of mischief, lies, and trickery in Norse mythology. He is the son ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- Heimdall is the sentry of Asgard and a member of the Aesir (the gods of the Norse pantheon). His most important function within Norse mythology ...18 KB (2,781 words) - 22:43, 3 February 2022
- Norse Mythology is renowned for its rich tapestry of colorful stories ... ==Völund in a Norse Context== As a figure in the Norse mythic corpus ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- In Norse mythology, Frigg or Frigga was said to be "foremost among the goddesses," Sturluson, Prose Edda, Gylfaginning. wife of Odin ...17 KB (2,558 words) - 07:03, 15 April 2024
- In Norse mythology, Brunhild or Brynhildr is one of the Valkyries or warrior maidens esteemed for their military prowess. Her honored status ...18 KB (2,858 words) - 16:28, 30 April 2020
- 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
- In Norse mythology, Asgard (Old Norse: Ásgarðr) was the realm of the gods (the Aesir) that was mythologically connected to the abode of the ...19 KB (3,050 words) - 03:59, 18 August 2023
- The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri ...21 KB (3,478 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- 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
- In Norse mythology, Njord or Njordr (Old Norse Njörðr) is one of the Vanir (the gods of prosperity and fertility), and is seen as the god of ...22 KB (3,533 words) - 02:30, 16 November 2022
- 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
- An elf is a mystical creature found in Norse mythology that still ... ===Norse=== The earliest preserved description of elves comes from ...21 KB (3,288 words) - 10:19, 21 January 2023
- In Norse Mythology, Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) was a widely worshipped deity among the Viking peoples and revered as the "God of Thunder. ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 21:00, 31 October 2022
- the Old Saxon Heliand, and the Old Norse Poetic Edda all use alliterative ... alliterative meters beyond those of Old Norse. There have been many different ...24 KB (3,773 words) - 20:35, 30 November 2023
- Rægnold, the sons of Eadulf, the English, Norse, Danes and others all of ... Old Norse and Old English were still mutually comprehensible to a ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- The word "fjord" comes from Old Norse, fjörðr, meaning ... in the verb fare (travelling/ferrying), the Norse noun substantive fjörðr ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- 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
- 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
- A dwarf is a mythical creature, appearing most frequently in Norse ... have the ability to forge magical items. In Norse mythology, for instance, ...15 KB (2,408 words) - 15:51, 24 September 2020
- Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian legends and religious beliefs of the Scandinavian people and Northern Germanic tribes ...33 KB (5,117 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- origins. Gnomes share many characteristics with the Norse dwarves, so much so that it is suggested that at a time in Scandinavian tradition, the two ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 08:03, 24 January 2023
- In Norse Mythology, Freyja (sometimes anglicized as Freya or Freja), sister of Freyr and daughter of Njord (Njǫrđr), is a prototypical Norse ...27 KB (4,334 words) - 12:25, 13 October 2022
- 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
- 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
- ===Germanic and Norse mythology=== [[Image:Ring45.jpg|thumb|right|200 ... In Germanic and Norse traditions, dragons were often depicted as a ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- [[Image:Yggdrasil.jpg|thumb|The Norse "world tree" Yggdrasil]] ... name of gods. The Tree of Life appears in Norse religion as Yggdrasil, the ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- The Norse pantheon consisted of numerous minor dieties that were often overshadowed by the more famous gods such as Odin, Thor, Loki, and Freyja ...36 KB (5,860 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- the pantheon, including the Greek Zeus, the Norse Odin and the Chinese Shang ... many cases (such as those of the Greek or Norse mythology), the stories of ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- 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
- figures within ancient mythology, including the Norse goddesses Frigg and Freyja, the Mesopotamian Ishtar, the Syro-Palestinian Astarte, and Venus' ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- in modern English are derived from Old Norse, though of the 100 most used ... each lost control of Northumbria to fresh Norse attacks before regaining ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- Category:Anthropology Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Siegfried rhinemaidens.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- Jakob Berzelius, who named it after Thor, the Norse god of thunder. The metal had virtually no uses until the invention of the lantern mantle in 1885. ...14 KB (1,909 words) - 23:00, 30 April 2023
- ("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 Norse legend that Thor sheltered from a thunderstorm under an oak tree has led to the belief that having an acorn on a windowsill will prevent ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 17:31, 16 February 2023
- legends and as Þjóðrekr and Þiðrekr in Norse mythology. During his reign ... The Norse saga deals with Dietrich's return home. The most familiar ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 18:00, 30 April 2023
- new home and added features from their own Norse language, transforming it ... began to lose much of its Germanic and Norse vocabulary, although it retained ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- The Isle of Man was controlled by Norse, Scottish, and English lords ... minted from an imported type two Hiberno-Norse penny die from Dublin. Hiberno ...38 KB (5,944 words) - 21:52, 8 March 2024
- From 984 C.E., it was colonized by Norse settlers who lived in two ... Main contributors to the demise of the Norse settlements appeared ...37 KB (5,399 words) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
- 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
- are believed to have been the Vikings ("Norse") during the eleventh century, who established several colonies in Greenland and one short ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- settlers around 700 C.E., bringing the Old Norse language to the islands, ... is most similar to Icelandic and Old Norse. In contrast, spoken Faeroese ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- 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
- 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
- Yaroslav I the Wise (c. 978 - February 20, 1054) (East Slavic: Ярослав Мудрый; Christian name: George; Old Norse: Jarizleifr) was ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- According to the Norse legends, Oslo was founded around 1049, by King ... According to the Norse sagas, Oslo was founded around 1049, by King ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 04:40, 18 November 2022
- The Norse gods Freyr and Freyja both had boars. Freyr's boar was named Gullinbursti ("Golden Mane"), who was manufactured by the ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 23:54, 11 January 2023
- who constantly plays tricks on the Norse gods. In folklore, the trickster ... *Odin principal deity of Norse mythology *Tiresias from the Odyssey ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- ;Dwarf: A dwarf, appearing most frequently in Norse mythology, is ... ;Elf: The elf is found in Norse mythology and still survives in northern ...32 KB (4,984 words) - 22:44, 10 November 2022
- *Norse and Germanic 'flyting' *Provençal and Catalan 'Jocs Florals' *Arabic 'naqa'id' *Argentinian 'payadores ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- 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 cleric ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 01:17, 5 March 2021
- 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
- heroes, they may be compared to the valkyries of Norse mythology. Apsaras are said to be able to change their shapes at will, and specially rule over ...10 KB (1,598 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- suffix; this is believed to be from the Old Norse ey and holmr, respectively. ... between the ninth and tenth centuries: the Norse suffix -ey for island can ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- settlers from Scandinavia and also from Norse colonies in the British Isles ... two countries had long been closely allied; Norse mythology and even the language ...36 KB (5,300 words) - 17:19, 10 February 2024
- king, and he plays major roles in three Norse sagas, in much of Western ... Attila's name has many variants: Atli and Atle in Norse; Ætla ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 18:24, 21 August 2023
- Canute (or Cnut) I, or Canute the Great (Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki, Danish: Knud den Store, Norwegian: Knut den mektige) (994/995 – November ...11 KB (1,794 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- Malalas and George Hamartolus, native legends and Norse sagas, several Greek religious texts, Rus-Byzantine treaties, and the oral accounts of Yan Vyshatich ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- |norse name=Eyin Helga; Hioe (hypothetical) |meaning of name= Gaelic for 'Columba's island'. |area=877 ha (2,166 acres) ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 11:11, 6 March 2024
- Similarly, Níðhöggr (the dragon of Norse mythology) eats from the ... In Norse mythology, the World Serpent (or Midgard serpent) known as ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- the Arthurian legends. She had studied Old Norse manuscripts and Medieval ... from Undset's own familiarity with Norse medieval literature and culture ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 19:59, 27 July 2023
- The motif also appears in other stories from Norse mythology, in particular the story of Egil in the Thidreks saga, as well as in the stories of ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- Christian or Jewish," (c.f. Old Norse heiðinn). Historically, ... (a folk religion based on Norse mythology) is a notable exception ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- An old Norse account of the northern lights is found in the Norwegian ... has been put forward as evidence that the Norse ventured as far as Antarctica ...25 KB (3,925 words) - 17:52, 22 August 2023
- name for the pike, ged, similarly derives from Old Norse gaddr (spike) (cf. the modern Swedish name for the pike, gädda, the Danish "gedde" ...24 KB (3,763 words) - 18:12, 26 February 2022
- Golem-like creatures appear in the folklore of other cultures. In Norse mythology, for example, Mökkurkálfi (or Mistcalfa) was a clay giant ...13 KB (2,171 words) - 11:55, 24 January 2023
- 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
- * Mundilfari an Old Norse term has been associated in modern literature ... * Thor's hammer, from its supposed association with Thor, the ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- #039;s fascination with the ancient Germanic and Norse peoples dominated his writing. Together with his Icelandic friend Eirikr Magnusson he was the ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- " "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
