** Poetic Edda No particular authorship ; oral tradition of the Norse

** Heithabyr is an English spelling of the Old Norse name.

** Norse mythology

** Norse art

** Norse activity in the British Isles

** The extinct Greenlandic Norse language

** The sons of Borr slaying the primeval giant Ymir in Norse mythology

** A daughter of the god Fornjót in Norse mythology

** Jarl ( mythology ), in Norse Mythology, a son of the god Ríg

** Loch Broom ( fjord ), Loch Eriboll ( fjord ), Loch Fyne ( fjord ), Loch Hourn ( fjord ), Loch Tarbert, Jura ( fjord ), Loch Torridon ( fjord ); Loch Sween, a fjord, The Minch ( Strait, " Skotlandsfjörð " (" Scotland's fjord / firth ") in Old Norse.

** Proto-Germanic * jēraN (" year ") > North / West Germanic * jāraN > North Germanic * āra > Old Norse ár, and > West Germanic * jāra > Old High German jār, Old English ġēar.

** Proto-Germanic * gebō (" gift ", ) > North / West Germanic * gebu > North Germanic * gjavu > ( by u-umlaut ) * gjǫvu > Old Norse gjǫf, and > West Germanic * gebu > Old English giefu.

** Proto-Germanic * tungōN (" tongue ", ) > late North / West Germanic * tungā > * tunga > Old Norse tunga, Old High German zunga, Old English tunge ( unstressed a > e ).

** Proto-Germanic * gebōz (" of a gift ", ) > late North / West Germanic * gebāz > North Germanic * gjavaz > Old Norse gjafar, and > West Germanic * geba > Old High German geba, Old English giefe ( unstressed a > e ).

** Proto-Germanic * twajjôN (" of two ") > Old Norse tveggja, Gothic twaddjē, but > Old High German zweiio

** Proto-Germanic * band (" I / he bound ") > * bant > Old West Norse batt, Old East Norse bant, but Old English band

** Proto-Germanic * nahtuN (" night ", accusative ) > * nāttu > ( by u-umlaut ) * nǭttu > Old Norse nótt

** Proto-Germanic * sairaz (" sore ") > * sāraz > * sārz > Old Norse sárr, but > * seira > Old High German sēr.

** With original Proto-Germanic * gaizaz > * geizz > Old Norse geirr.

** Proto-Germanic * bindanaN > * bindan > Old Norse binda, but > Old English bindan.

** This also affected stressed syllables: Proto-Germanic * in > Old Norse í

** Proto-Germanic * wulfaz > early North Germanic wulfaz > late ulfz > Old Norse ulfr

** Giants ( Norse mythology )

It focuses on historical Norse paganism of the Viking Age as described in the Eddas, but proponents also take a more inclusive approach, defining it as " Northern European Heathenry " not limited to a specific historical period.

A Goði or Gothi ( plural goðar ) is the historical Old Norse term for a priest and chieftain in Norse paganism.

Freyr ( sometimes anglicized Frey, from * frawjaz " lord ") is one of the most important gods of Norse paganism.

Frigg ( sometimes anglicized as Frigga ) is a major goddess in Norse paganism, a subset of Germanic paganism.

* Death in Norse paganism

* Germanic paganism, Finnish Paganism, Norse paganism

Njörðr has been the subject of an amount of scholarly discourse and theory, often connecting him with the figure of the much earlier attested Germanic goddess Nerthus, the hero Hadingus, and theorizing on his formerly more prominent place in Norse paganism due to the appearance of his name in numerous place names.

This group includes aboriginal Americans as well as Australian aborigines, Viking Age Norse paganism and New Age spirituality.

In early Germanic paganism, * Wulþuz (" glory "; Old Norse Ullr ) appears to have been a major god, or an epithet of an important god, in prehistoric times.

* Death in Norse paganism

The indigenous pre-Christian belief system of the Anglo-Saxons was a form of Germanic paganism and therefore closely related to the Old Norse religion, as well as other Germanic pre-Christian cultures.

In Old Norse, ( or, plural ; feminine, plural ) is the term denoting a member of the principal pantheon in the indigenous European religion known as Norse paganism.

The personal names Old Norse Ásleikr ( Latinized Ansleicus, modern Axel ), Old English Óslác ( modern Hasluck ) and Old High German Ansleh may continue the term for a sacrificial performance for the gods in early Germanic paganism (*).

Ásatrú, meaning " faith in the Æsir ", is a new religious movement of polytheistic reconstructionism based on Norse paganism.

The conversion from Norse paganism to Christianity was a complex, gradual, and at times possibly violent ( see Temple at Uppsala ) process.

For temple buildings of Germanic paganism, the Old Norse term hof is often used.

Denmark-Norway nonetheless claimed the territory, and, after centuries of no contact between the Norse Greenlanders and their Scandinavian brethren, it was feared that the Greenlanders had lapsed back into paganism ; so a missionary expedition was sent out to reinstate Christianity in 1721.

In 1721, Lutheran minister Hans Egede and his Bergen Greenland Company received a royal charter from King Frederick IV granting them broad authority over Greenland and commissioning them to seek out the old Norse colony and spread the Reformation among its inhabitants, who were presumed to still be Catholic or to have reverted to paganism.

* Death in Norse paganism

* Norse paganism