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According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >
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.
According to Norse mythology as contained in the thirteenth-century Icelandic work Prose Edda, the lake was created by the goddess Gefjon when she tricked Gylfi, the Swedish king of Gylfaginning.
According to Albert Sturtevant, " far as the element Rata-is concerned, Bugge's hypothesis has no valid foundation in view of the fact that the Norse word Rata ( gen. form of Rati *) is used in
Gwyn Jones notes that " no true town has been found and excavated " and that the identification of the site in Elbląg with Truso is based on " finds of Norse weapons " and the presence of " a large Viking Age cemetery " nearby, According to Mateusz Bogucki " by now, there is no doubt that the settlement really is Wulfstan's Truso " The Elbląg Museum brochure: Truso-A Discovered Legend, by Marek F Jagodziński, describes a large number of buildings found during the recent excavations, with burnt remains of posts suggesting buildings of c. 5 x 10 m and long houses of about 6 x 21 m.
According to custom, all free Norse men were required to own weapons, as well as permitted to carry them all the time.
According to Norse mythology, the first humans, Ask and Embla, were formed out of two pieces of driftwood, an ash and an elm, by the god Odin and his brothers, Vili and.
According to the same account, the Irish monks abandoned the country when the Norse arrived, or had left prior to their arrival.
According to Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, he was named Magnus ( Magnús in Old Norse ) by Sigvatr Þórðarson, his father's Icelandic skald, after Charlemagne, Carolus Magnus in Latin.
According to records from the time, Galti headed the first Norse attempt to colonize Greenland, which ended in disaster.
According to the Latin Historia Norwegiæ, Halvdan was a king " in montanis " ( in the mountains ), which is usually equivalent to Oppland in the Old Norse.
According to Guðbrandur Vigfússon, the concept of the einherjar is directly connected to the Old Norse name Einarr.
" According to Hilda Ellis Davidson, while Valhalla " is well known because it plays so large a part in images of warfare and death ," the significance of other halls in Norse mythology such as Ýdalir, and the goddess Freyja's afterlife location Fólkvangr has been lost.
According to Norse mythology, prior to Ragnarök, Álfröðull will give birth to a daughter and after she is eaten by the wolf, the daughter will take her place.
According to local historians and published works, the wife of a postmaster was a devoted fan of the works of the composer Richard Wagner, and she shared that composer's interest in Norse mythology.
According to the Sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, tentatively identified with the Norse L ' Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland in modern-day Canada.
According to ancient mythology and folklore, it would be the three gods Thor, Odin and Freyr lying in Kungshögarna or Uppsala högar ( from the Old Norse word Haugr meaning mound or barrow ).
According to Rudolf Simek, Old Norse dís appears commonly as simply a term for ' woman ,' just as Old High German itis, Old Saxon idis, and Anglo-Saxon ides, and may have also been used to denote a type of goddess.
According to the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, the term derives from the Middle English brusket which comes from the earlier Old Norse brjósk, meaning cartilage.
According to the Icelandic sagas (" Eirik the Red's Saga " and the " Saga of the Greenlanders "— chapters of the Hauksbók and the Flatey Book ), the Norse started to explore lands to the west of Greenland only a few years after the Greenland settlements were established.
According to the Opies, Jack's magical accessories – the cap of knowledge, the cloak of invisibility, the magic sword, and the shoes of swiftness – could have been borrowed from the tale of Tom Thumb or from Norse mythology, however older analogues in British Celtic lore such as Y Mabinogi and the tales of Gwyn Ap Nudd, cognate with the Irish Fionn Mac Cumhaill, suggest that these represent attributes of the earlier Celtic gods such as the shoes associated with triple-headed Lugus ; Welsh Lleu Llaw Gyffes of the Fourth Branch, Arthur's invincible sword Caledfwlch and his Mantle of Invisibility Gwenn one of the Thirteen Treasures of Britain mentioned in two of the branches ; or the similar cloak of Caswallawn in the Second Branch.
According to Per Thomsen, the Old Russian form influenced an Old Norse appellation of Constantinople, Miklagard ( Мikligarðr ).
According to Norse sagas, the skraelings of Vinland responded so ferociously that the newcomers eventually withdrew and gave up their plans to settle the area.
According to Snorri, the Norse historian, Connor, King of Ireland, defeated the raiding Orkney Vikings at Ulfreksfjord in 1018.

According and sagas
According to the sagas, he ruled Norway from approximately 872 to 930.
According to the sagas, he became familiar with Norway through an acquaintance with Norwegian merchants including Rögnvald Kali Kolsson, who would later become Earl of Orkney.
According to the sagas, Harald had previously been married to Bjadok.
According to the sagas, the martyrdom took place after Easter, on April 16.
According to the sagas, Halfdan Hvitbeinn ( Whiteleg ) was the first Yngling in Norway.
According to the sagas, Halfdan Hvitbeinn ( Whiteleg ) was the first Yngling in Norway.
According to the Fagrskinna collection of sagas, King Harald III of Norway uttered these lines of dróttkvætt at the Battle of Stamford Bridge ; the internal assonances and the alliteration are bolded:
According to the sagas, in 1103 Magnus set out again to raid in Ireland.
According to the sagas, while awaiting these supplies, they went on land through a marshy area and saw a large dust cloud on the horizon.
According to the sagas, the West Norse entered the service of the Guard considerably later than the East Norse.
According to the sagas Morkinskinna and Heimskringla, Inge s infirmity stemmed from having been carried into battle by one of his guardians during a battle in 1137: “... his back was knotted into a hump, and the one foot was shorter than the other ; and he was besides so infirm that he could scarcely walk as long as he lived .” s: Heimskringla / Saga of Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein, the Sons of Harald # Of Sigurd Slembidjakn.
According to the sagas, relations between the brothers were peaceful as long as their guardians were alive.
According to the sagas, Eystein and Sigurd had plotted to strip Inge of his royal title and divide his share of the kingdom between them.
According to the two sagas, he was the son of an Erik who fought Harald Fairhair and who succeeded the brothers Björn at Hauge and Anund Uppsale:
According to the sagas, he was the father of Halfdan the Black, and thus the grandfather of Harald Fairhair, the first king of unified Norway.
According to the Norse sagas, the Wulfings ruled the Geatish petty kingdom of Östergötland.
According to the sagas, the region called Jämtland was originally settled by fugitives from Trøndelag after Harald Fairhair united Norway in the 9th century.
According to the sagas, relations between the three brothers were peaceful as long as the two younger brothers ' guardians were alive.
According to the sagas, Eystein and Sigurd had plotted to strip Inge of his royal title and divide his share of the kingdom between them.
According to medieval kings ' sagas, it was a Viking Age petty kingdom.
According to the Icelandic sagas early Viking Age chieftains enjoyed hunting and entertaining their entourages in the forests and on the lakes in this area.
According to the sagas, he was part of an expedition for the exploration of Vinland.
According to the Vinland sagas, when Snorri was 3 years old, his family left Vinland because of hostilities with Native Americans ( called Skrælings by the settlers, which is the Old Norse equivalent of the English term " wretches ").

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