In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla ( from Old Norse Askr ok Embla )— male and female respectively — were the first two humans, created by the gods.

The first is -, genitive of, denoting one of the group of Norse heathen gods called.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

" 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 Bifröst — the Old Norse verb bifa ( meaning " to shimmer " or " to shake ")— noting that the element provokes notions of the " lustrous sheen " of the bridge.

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas ( having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century ), Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with America, inaugurating a period of European exploration and colonization of foreign lands that lasted for several centuries.

The Norse god superhero Thor communicates with what appears to be Rogers ' spirit on the first anniversary of Rogers ' death, in Thor vol.

Elves are first attested in Old English and Old Norse texts and are prominent in traditional British and Scandinavian folklore.

In Scandinavian folklore, which is a later blend of Norse mythology and elements of Christian mythology, an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv or älva in Swedish ( the first is masculine, the second feminine ).

The first part of the Codex Regius preserves poems that narrate the creation and foretold destruction and rebirth of the Old Norse mythological world as well as individual myths about gods concerning Norse deities.

His first name Grímr is Norse.

The first element in the name Forsetlund ( Old Norse Forsetalundr ), a farm in the parish of Onsøy (' Odins island '), in eastern Norway, seems to be the genitive case of Forseti, offering evidence he was worshipped there.

Michael Bell says that while Hel " might at first appear to be identical with the well-known pagan goddess of the Norse underworld " as described in chapter 34 of Gylfaginning, " in the combined light of the Old English and Old Norse versions of Nicodemus she casts quite a different a shadow ," and that in Bartholomeus saga postola " she is clearly the queen of the Christian, not pagan, underworld.

This edition also included the first printing of the text in Old Norse.

The first part of the Heimskringla is rooted in Norse mythology ; as it advances, fable and fact all curiously intermingle, and it terminates in factual history.

The kilt first appeared as the great kilt, the breacan or belted plaid, is most likely Norse in origin and not Celtic as many assume.

The word manuscript derives from the Medieval Latin manuscriptum, a word first recorded in 1594 as a Latinisation of earlier Germanic words used in the Middle Ages: compare Middle High German hantschrift ( c. 1450 ), Old Norse handrit ( bef.

While the second element is certainly from the Old Norse haugr usually meaning a mound, there have been several different theories postulated for the first element, maes.

The first element owlþu, for wolþu -, means " glory ", " glorious one ", Old Norse Ullr, Old English wuldor.

The implication is that the first element is Old Norse vín ( Latin vinum ), " wine ".

Another interpretation of the name Vinland, quite popular in the late 20th century, is that the first element is not vín ( with a slightly lengthened vowel sound ) but vin ( with a short sound ), an Old Norse word with the meaning ' meadow, pasture '.

* Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, Old Norse text, Guðni Jónsson's edition.

Two Norse mythology | Norse dwarf ( Germanic mythology ) | dwarves as depicted in a 19th century edition of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich

A modern edition of the traditional Scandinavian halatafl, the " fox game " Halatafl means " tail board ", in Old Norse, and " tail " presumably refers to a fox ' tail.

The American Heritage Dictionary, fourth edition, gives Old Norse " ves heill " as the source of Middle English " waeshaeil ".

Early modern publications dealing with Old Norse culture appeared in the 16th century, e. g. Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus ( Olaus Magnus, 1555 ) and the first edition of the

Early modern publications dealing with Old Norse culture appeared in the 16th century, e. g. Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus ( Olaus Magnus, 1555 ) and the first edition of the

* 1897 edition by Hugo Gering available from Old Norse Workfiles by Michael Irlenbusch-Reynard.

* Ragnarsdrápa in Old Norse in Finnur Jónsson's edition, at Kulturformidlingen norrøne tekster og kvad, Norway.

* Geirmundar þáttr heljarskinns ( Old Norse text based on Gudbrand Vigfusson's edition ) translated into English as The Tale of Geirmund Deathskin

He edited a large number of standard German and Low German texts, and to the study of the Scandinavian literatures he contributed an edition of the Voluspa ( 1831 ), a translation of the Lieder der Edda von den Nibelungen ( 1837 ) and an old Norse reading book and vocabulary.

In 1978, experts from London considered that it might be Norse.

* Barrett, James H. " The Norse in Scotland " in Brink, Stefan ( ed ) ( 2008 ) The Viking World.

* Barrett, James H. " The Norse in Scotland " in Brink, Stefan ( ed ) ( 2008 ) The Viking World.

* Frank Budgen (" James Joyce's Work in Progress and Old Norse Poetry ")

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 (*).

All versions of the second game, except the original SNES release, were titled Lost Vikings 2: Norse by Norsewest ( Norse by Norse West: The Return Of Lost Vikings in the U. S .).

Songs on the album make reference to famous gangster Al Capone, as well as Norse God Loki, John Brown, Ulysses S. Grant, Nelson Mandela, Charles Van Doren, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Don Giovanni.

Evidence of continuing trips includes the Maine Penny, a Norwegian coin from King Olaf Kyrre's reign ( 1067 – 1093 ) allegedly found in a Native American archaeological site in the U. S. state of Maine, suggesting an exchange between the Norse and the Native Americans late in or after the 11th century ; and an entry in the Icelandic Annals from 1347 which refers to a small Greenlandic vessel with a crew of eighteen that arrived in Iceland while attempting to return to Greenland from Markland with a load of timber.

Working for The Saturday Review while overseas, Ciardi sent Harold Norse ’ s poem, " Victor Emmanuel Monument ( Rome )," back to the U. S. to be published in the April 13, 1957 issue.

With no Chinese-born architects in Chicago at the time, Chicago-born Norse architects Christian S. Michaelsen and Sigurd A. Rognstad were asked to design the new On Leong Merchants Association Building in spring, 1926.

* Samuel Adams: Norse Legend sahti ( from Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A .)

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