According to Gylfaginning, a book of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Baldr's wife is Nanna and their son is Forseti.

According to Snorri Sturluson in the Prose Edda, Forseti is the son of Baldr and Nanna.

According to the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, the goddess Frigg made everything in existence swear never to harm Baldr, except for the mistletoe which she found too young to demand an oath from.

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 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:

According to the Prose Edda, the asgardian Thor, son of Odin, defeat Surtr in the Ragnarók

According to Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, in his retelling of the Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna, she is married to Ægir and they have nine daughters together.

According to the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, at one stage the gods decided to shackle the Fenris wolf ( Fenrir ), but the beast broke every chain they put upon him.

According to the Prose version of Ragnarok, Tyr is destined to kill and be killed by Garm, the guard dog of Hel.

According to the Prose Edda, the water of this well is so pure and holy that all things that touch it turn white, including this original pair of swans and all others descended from them.

According to the Prose Edda, Odin took Loki's three children, Fenrisúlfr, Hel and Jörmungandr.

According to the Prose Edda, these warriors settled in northern Europe, where they were accepted as divine kings because of their superior culture and technology.

According to chapter 51 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, Odin will ride in front of the Einherjar while advancing on to the battle field at Ragnarök wearing a gold helmet, an impressive cloak of mail and carrying Gungnir.

According to the Gylfaginning part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Níðhöggr is a being which gnaws one of the three roots of Yggdrasill.

According to the Prose Edda, after Ymir was formed from the elemental drops, so too was Auðumbla, a primeval cow, whose milk Ymir fed from.

According to the Gylfaginning section of the Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, Bergelmir and his wife alone among the giants were the only survivors of the enormous deluge of blood which flowed from Ymir's wounds when he was killed by Odin and his brothers Vili and Ve.

According to the Prose Edda, within Fólkvangr is Freyja's hall Sessrúmnir.

According to the Prose Edda, Hœnir is said to have given reason to man.

According to the Eddic poem Hymiskviða she is the mother of Týr, the poem suggests by Hymir, but the later Prose Edda states that Óðinn is his father.

According to the Prose Edda, Odin took Loki's three children by Angrboða, the wolf Fenrir, Hel and Jörmungandr, and tossed Jörmungandr into the great ocean that encircles Midgard.

According to the Prose Edda, Kvasir was instrumental in the capture and binding of Loki, and an euhemerized account of the god appears in Heimskringla, where he is attested as the wisest among the Vanir.

According to the Prose Edda, Loki is Laufey's or Nál's son by the giant Fárbauti, and has the brothers Býleistr and Helblindi:

According to Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, she was Thor's lover.

According to the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, Hlér is another name for the sea jötunn Ægir who, according to the same book, there held feasts for the gods.

According to the Hindu mythology, a land bridge existed between the Indian mainland and Sri Lanka.

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Xerxes's first attempt to bridge the Hellespont ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges ; Xerxes ordered the Hellespont ( the strait itself ) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water.

According to his memoirs, it was " shown to me in an unplayable condition, without bridge, strings or fingerboard .... No case was available -- it was such a large instrument 17 1 / 8 inches -- so my wife came to the rescue by wrapping it in her waterproof coat, and that is how it was taken across the English Channel.

According to Ephrata Township supervisor Clark Stauffer, the bridge has been disassembled and will be reassembled a few miles downstream to replace an existing one lane Mill Creek Road bridge.

According to the city's website, Tczew was the location of the start of World War II when German bombers attacked Polish sapper installations to prevent the bridge from been blown up at 04: 34 on 1 September 1939 ( the shelling of Westerplatte commenced at 04: 45 ).

According to an account from the period: The Lord General hath caused a bridge to be built upon barges and lighters over the Thames between Fulham and Putney, to convey his army and artillery over into Surrey, to follow the king's forces ; and he hath ordered that forts shall be erected at each end thereof to guard it ; but for the present the seamen, with long boats and shallops full of ordnance and musketeers, lie there upon the river to secure it.

* According to an anonymous rhyme, the bridge over the Dee is one of the Seven Wonders of Wales.

According to an Easton paper of January 19, 1869, Mrs. Sophia Sandt rode from Pennsylvania to New Jersey and back again in her sleigh “ amidst the applause of the people .” The bridge, of the Burr Truss type, was 775 feet long, 18 feet wide, and cost about $ 40, 000 to construct.

According to a 2004 New Civil Engineer report on contemporary maintenance, such a practice never existed, although under British Rail management, and before, the bridge had a permanent maintenance crew.

According to Pontis, the naming would not only honor Reines ' work, but would be appropriate in that the bridge connects the town in which Reines lived with the neighboring town in which he attended high school.

According to Picton, the enemy responded by pummeling the 3rd with 40 to 50 cannon and a counter-attack on their right flank ( which was still open because they had captured the bridge so quickly ) causing the 3rd to lose 1, 800 men ( over one third of all Allied losses at the battle ) as they held their ground.

According to a graphic description in the chronicle the Brut, Hereford was killed as he crossed the bridge by a pikeman hiding underneath, who thrust his spear up through the earl's anus.

According to marine geologists, the Ryukyu Islands were connected to mainland Asia via a land bridge from about 20, 000 years ago to 240, 000 years ago.

According to Harper ’ s Weekly in 1882, “ One of the most striking proofs of the rapid growth of New York is furnished by the bridges of the Harlem .” There are two general categories of bridge type on the Harlem: fixed arch and movable.

According to The Oregonian, it is the hardest working bridge on the Willamette River: " Cars, trucks, freight trains, buses, Amtrak, MAX, pedestrians, bicycles -- you carry it all.

According to Major-General Roy Urquhart, when informed that his airborne troops would have to hold the bridge for two days, Browning responded that they could hold it for four, but then added: " But I think we might be going a bridge too far.

According to the Japanese, the Chinese had started the war by blowing up a certain bridge near Mukden, China.

According to Bonebaker, Professor of Naval Architecture at Delft, with the estimated weight of one ton for the boarding bridge, it is " most improbable that the stability of a quinquereme with a displacement of about 250m³ would be seriously upset ".

According to Archimedes ' principle, the mass ( weight ) of a boat and its cargo on the bridge, pushes an equal mass of water off the bridge

According to the road building standards of its time, the bridge has been builtwide enough for two carriages to pass each other.