The Poetic and Prose Eddas, the oldest sources for information on the Norse concept of the afterlife, vary in their description of the several realms that are described as falling under this topic.

This would have been a burial fitting a king who was famous for his wealth in Old Norse sources.

The term Edda ( Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur ) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century in Icelandic, although they contain material from earlier traditional sources, reaching into the Viking Age.

The books are the main sources of medieval skaldic tradition in Iceland and Norse mythology.

Along with her brother Freyr ( Old Norse the " Lord "), her father Njörðr, and her mother ( Njörðr's sister, unnamed in sources ), she is a member of the Vanir.

However, as with the rest of the Ring, Wagner's account of this apocalypse diverges significantly from his Old Norse sources.

Davidson adds that, on the other hand, various other examples of " certain supernatural women " connected with death are to be found in sources for Norse mythology, that they " seem to have been closely connected with the world of death, and were pictured as welcoming dead warriors ," and that the depiction of Hel " as a goddess " in Gylfaginning " might well owe something to these.

According to the historical sources the ships ' prows carried carvings of menacing beasts, such as dragons and snakes, allegedly to protect the ship and crew, and to ward off the terrible sea monsters of Norse mythology.

There are a number of surviving Old Norse sources that relate to the norns.

The mythological sources of the various pagan traditions are similarly varied, including Celtic, Norse, Greek, Roman, Sumerian, Egyptian and others.

Saint Olga (, also called Olga Prekrasna ( Ольга Прекрасна ), or Olga the Beauty, hypothetically Old Norse: Helga ; in some Scandinavian sources she was called by other names.

While the name Sigyn is found as a female personal name in Old Norse sources ( Old Norse sigr meaning " victory " and vina meaning " girl-friend "), and though in surviving sources she is largely restricted to a single role, she appears in the 9th century Haustlöng from pagan times, written by the skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir.

In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.

In Old Norse sources, trolls are said to dwell in isolated mountains, rocks, and caves, sometimes live together ( usually as father-and-daughter or mother-and-son ), and are rarely described as helpful or friendly.

but medieval Icelandic sources have only sparse material on Old Norse Ullr.

The vast majority of loan words did not appear in documents until the early 12th century ; these included many modern words which used sk-sounds, such as skirt, sky, and skin ; other words appearing in written sources at this time included again, awkward, birth, cake, dregs, fog, freckles, gasp, law, moss, neck, ransack, root, scowl, sister, seat, sly, smile, want, weak and window from Old Norse meaning " wind-eye ".

The main sources of information about the Norse voyages to Vinland are two Icelandic sagas, the Saga of Eric the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders.

After the consolidation of the church and the assimilation of Scandinavia and its colonies into the mainstream of medieval Christian culture in the 11th and 12th centuries, native written sources begin to appear, in Latin and Old Norse.

The runestones are important sources in the study of Norse society and early medieval Scandinavia, not only of the ' Viking ' segment of the population.

Yet other sources derive the word from warg-wolf, where warg ( or later werg and wero ) is cognate with Old Norse vargr, meaning " rogue ", " outlaw " or, euphemistically, " wolf ".

Hilda Ellis Davidson comments that the existence of nine worlds around Yggdrasil is mentioned more than once in Old Norse sources, but the identity of the worlds is never stated outright, though it can be deduced from various sources.

Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.

Scholars have proposed that the bridge may have originally represented the Milky Way and have noted parallels between the bridge and another bridge in Norse mythology, Gjallarbrú.

The name " dill " comes from Old English dile, thought to have originated from a Norse or Anglo-Saxon word dylle meaning to soothe or lull, the plant having the carminative property of relieving gas.

Stød generally occurs in words that have " accent 1 " in Swedish and Norwegian and that were monosyllabic in Old Norse, while no-stød occurs in words that have " accent 2 " in Swedish and Norwegian and that were polysyllabic in Old Norse.

The elves of Norse mythology have survived into folklore mainly as females, living in hills and mounds of stones.

He may have been of mixed Norse and Irish origin and come from a settlement in the British isles ; a so-called Norse-Gael.

Depictions of Fenrir have been identified on various objects, and scholarly theories have been proposed regarding Fenrir's relation to other canine beings in Norse mythology.

" However, as de Vries points out, the only basis for associating Forseti with justice seems to have been his name ; there is no corroborating evidence in Norse mythology.

The Old East Norse term for both Goths and Gotlanders seems to have been Gutar ( for instance, in the Gutasaga and in the runic inscription of the Rökstone ).

It is also noted to have been a place of dwelling for Balder, Forseti's father in Norse and Germanic mythologies.

Scholarly theories have been proposed about Hel's potential connections to figures appearing in the 11th century Old English Gospel of Nicodemus and Old Norse Bartholomeus saga postola, potential Indo-European parallels to Bhavani, Kali, and Mahakali, and her origins.

Scholars have assumed that Saxo used Proserpina as a goddess equivalent to the Norse Hel.

These islands have a long history of occupation dating back to the Mesolithic and the culture of the residents has been affected by the successive influences of Celtic, Norse and English-speaking peoples.

In the Western Isles Ketill Flatnose may have been the dominant figure of the mid 9th century, by which time he had amassed a substantial island realm and made a variety of alliances with other Norse leaders.

For a time, the military might of the Gall-Ghàidhils meant that Old Norse was prevalent in the Hebrides and, north of Ardnamurchan, the place names that existed prior to the 9th century have been all but obliterated.

The majority are Norse or Gaelic but the roots of several of the Hebrides may have a pre-Celtic origin and indeed the Haiboudai recorded by Ptolemy may itself be pre-Celtic.

Lewis is Ljoðhús in Old Norse and although various suggestions have been made as to a Norse meaning ( such as " song house ") the name is not of Gaelic origin and the Norse credentials are questionable.

* Oleg of Kiev ( Old Norse: Helgi ), Swede who founded Kievan Rus ' and led several major raids against Constantinople

Oleg of Novgorod ( Slavic: Олег, Old Norse: Helgi ) was a Varangian prince ( or konung ) who ruled all or part of the Rus ' people during the early 10th century.

It derives from the Old Norse Helgi ( Helge ), meaning " holy ", " sacred ", or " blessed ".

Halfdan (,, Medieval, Proto-Norse: * Halbadaniz, " half Dane ") was a late 5th and early 6th century legendary Danish king of the Scylding ( Skjöldung ) lineage, the son of king named Fróði in many accounts, noted mainly as the father to the two kings who succeeded him in the rule of Denmark, kings named Hroðgar and Halga in the Old English poem Beowulf and named Hróar and Helgi in Old Norse accounts.

Helge or Helgi is a Norse male name.

* Helgi Hundingsbane 7th century, probably a king of East Götaland in the Norse sagas.

The Wulfing navy on the move, an illustration from the poems on the Wulfing Helgi HundingsbaneThe Wulfings, Wylfings or Ylfings ( the name means the " wolf clan ") was a powerful clan in Beowulf, Widsith and in the Norse sagas.

Helgi Hundingsbane is a hero in Norse sagas.

Helgi's army departs to fight for Sigrún. Völsungakviða, Helgakviða Hundingsbana I or the First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane is an Old Norse poem found in the Poetic Edda.

Völsungakviða in forna, Helgakviða Hundingsbana II or the Second Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane is an Old Norse poem found in the Poetic Edda.

* The Norse traditions provide some members of Kettil's family such as his son Helgi and his great grandson Áleif with Gaelic nicknames, suggesting a link with Gallgáedil traditions.

There is also the possibility that the name derives from the Norse ' The Farm of Helgi '.