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Bifröst and burning
In Norse mythology, Bifröst ( or sometimes Bilröst ) is a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard ( the world ) and Asgard, the realm of the gods.
Heimdallr is attested as possessing foreknowledge, keen eyesight and hearing, is described as " the whitest of the gods ", and keeps watch for the onset of Ragnarök while drinking fine mead in his dwelling Himinbjörg, located where the burning rainbow bridge Bifröst meets heaven.

Bifröst and rainbow
A rainbow bridge, Bifröst, connects it to heaven ( Section 13 ).
" He notes that the first element of Bilröst — bil ( meaning " a moment ")—" suggests the fleeting nature of the rainbow ," which he connects to the first element of Bifröstthe Old Norse verb bifa ( meaning " to shimmer " or " to shake ")— noting that the element provokes notions of the " lustrous sheen " of the bridge.
Austrian Germanist Rudolf Simek says that Bifröst either means " the swaying road to heaven " ( also citing bifa ) or, if Bilröst is the original form of the two ( which Simek says is likely ), " the fleetingly glimpsed rainbow " ( possibly connected to bil, perhaps meaning " moment, weak point ").
Davidson says that it is unclear where the nine worlds are located in relation to the tree ; they could either exist one above the other or perhaps be grouped around the tree, but there are references to worlds existing beneath the tree, while the gods are pictured as in the sky, a rainbow bridge ( Bifröst ) connecting the tree with other worlds.
* Bifröst the rainbow bridge has three colours.
Between the two worlds they stretched a rainbow bridge and called it Bifröst.
Heimdall, the god's warden, dwells beside Bifröst, the rainbow bridge.
The Elder Edda states that the giants would cross Bifröst, a great rainbow, at the Twilight of the Gods, breaking it with their weight and so destroying the world.

Bifröst and bridge
The bridge is attested as Bilröst in the Poetic Edda ; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and as Bifröst in the Prose Edda ; written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the poetry of skalds.
According to the Ragnarök prophecies in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning, the first part of his Prose Edda, the sons of Muspell will break the Bifröst bridge, signaling the end of times:
In the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, Sleipnir is first mentioned in chapter 15 where the enthroned figure of High says that every day the Æsir ride across the bridge Bifröst, and provides a list of the Æsir's horses.
At Urðarbrunnr the gods hold their court, and every day the Æsir ride to Urðarbrunnr up over the bridge Bifröst.
Muspelheim ( Múspellsheimr, literally " home of Múspell ") is the world of fire, at odds with Niflheim, the world of ice ; and during Ragnarök ( the apocalypse ), the fire giants, called the " sons of Múspell " ( Múspellz synir or Múspells megir ) or " people of Múspell " ( Múspellz lȳðir ), will break the Bifröst bridge, thus heralding the beginning of Ragnarök.
Just-As-High details that, every day, the gods ride over the bridge Bifröst to hold court at the well.
Thor wades through a river while the æsir ride across the bridge Bifröst ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich
Although no major religion specifically refers to such a place for pets, the belief shows similarities with the Bifröst bridge of Norse mythology.
The initial Kirby comics depict boom tubes as a sort of quasi-technological equivalent of Bifröst, the Rainbow Bridge linking Asgard and Earth ; indeed, boom tubes are described as a " bridge to Earth.

Bifröst and from
The realm was said to have been formed from the flesh and blood of Ymir, his flesh constituting the land and his blood the oceans, and was connected to Asgard by the Bifröst, guarded by Heimdallr.

Bifröst and gods
Each day, the gods ride over Bifröst to their meeting place at the Well of Urd.

burning and rainbow
* 1st cupola: Noah's Ark, left l ' arch with the rainbow, Jacob's ladder and burning bush ;

burning and bridge
After the wartime bridge burning, a tugboat, Columbia, was used to tow canal boats across the river.
The Romans, desiring to cut off the enemy's means of escape, sent rafts of burning logs down the Anio to destroy the bridge over the river by fire.
They burned ships and warehouses in New Bedford, skirmished at the Head-of-the-River bridge ( approximately where the Main Street bridge in Acushnet is presently situated ), and marched through Fairhaven to Sconticut Neck, burning homes along the way.
The column passes through taking fresh horses and burning the bridge over the Whitewater River near the southwest part of the town.
* Burn one's bridges This expression is derived from the idea of burning down a bridge after crossing it during a military campaign, leaving no choice but to continue the march.
On May 26, McClellan, in response to the burning of bridges on the Baltimore & Ohio near the town of Farmington, ordered Col. Benjamin Franklin Kelley of the ( Union ) 1st Virginia Infantry with his regiment and Company A of the 2nd Virginia Infantry, to advance from Wheeling to the area and safeguard the important bridge over the Monongahela River at Fairmont, a distance of about southeast of Wheeling.
He was killed during the war for the Shard of the Palace, when he chose to fight the peace hounds to the last on a burning bridge, rather than fleeing in time.
Also in 1939, Canutt doubled Clark Gable in the burning of Atlanta in Gone With the Wind ; he also appeared as a renegade accosting Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ) as she crosses a bridge in a carriage driving through a shantytown.
During the festival, villagers take turns standing on a bridge and twirling burning bales of hay over the edge.
During the evening of 23 May 1970 the bridge was greatly damaged when boys playing inside the bridge dropped a burning torch, setting alight the tar-coated wooden roof of the tubes ( see Britannia Bridge Official Fire Report, BBC News video ).
Several cautious probing attacks by the German naval infantry, Danzig SS and police and Wehrmacht were again repulsed by the Poles ; at 0300, during one of these attacks, they sent a burning train against the land bridge, but this failed when the terrified driver decoupled too early.
The burning remains of the tanker under the bridge
Union leaders and Opposition politicians joined them thereafter and Police and crowd engaged in a standoff with occasional outbursts and usual elements of protesting until nightfall, when a few city residents came out and began burning tires on the bridge.
As Blunt neared the stream, he discovered that Moonlight ’ s small force had engaged Price's advance guard just after sunup, burning the bridge as previously ordered.
*" He jumped but the bridge was burning ", 1950s
When the bridge was finished he kindled a large fire on board the vessel and placed pieces of flesh on the burning embers.
After successfully burning the bridge, Thompson retreated to join his infantry in Fredericktown.
As Blunt neared the stream, he discovered that Moonlight ’ s brigade had engaged Price's advance guard just after sunup, burning the bridge as previously ordered.
In May, the new bridge was crucial during the emergency evacuation of the burning of Kristiansund.

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