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Norse and mythology

The conception that diseases
and death come
from invisible shots sent
by supernatural beings
, or magicians
is common in Germanic
and Norse mythology.

Category
: Locations in
Norse mythology

Alfheim (,
" elf home
") is one of the Nine Worlds
and home
of the Light Elves in
Norse mythology and appears also in Anglo-Scottish ballads under
the form Elfhame
( Elphame
, Elfame )
as a fairyland
, sometimes modernized
as Elfland
( Elfinland
, Elvenland ).

Category
: Locations in
Norse mythology
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
.

Ægir
( Old Norse " sea
") is a sea giant
, god of the ocean
and king
of the sea creatures in
Norse mythology.

*
Norse mythology

The word aegis
is identified
with protection
by a strong force
with its roots in Greek
mythology and adopted
by the Romans ; there are parallels in
Norse mythology and in Egyptian
mythology as well
, where
the Greek word aegis
is applied
by extension
.
In Norse mythology, the dragon Fafnir
( best known in
the form
of a dragon slain
by Sigurðr ) bears on his forehead
the Ægis-helm
( ON ægishjálmr ), or Ægir's helmet
, or more specifically
the " Helm
of Terror ".
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
.

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
.

Baldr
( also Balder
, Baldur )
is a god in
Norse mythology.
In Norse mythology, Breiðablik
( Broad-gleaming )
is the home
of Baldr
.

Category
: Locations in
Norse mythology

Bilskirnir
( Old Norse " lightning-crack
") is the hall
of the god Thor in
Norse mythology.

Category
: Locations in
Norse mythology
In Norse mythology, Brísingamen
( from Old Norse brisinga
" flaming
, glowing
" and men
" jewellery
, ornament
") is the necklace
of the goddess Freyja
.

Category
: Artifacts in
Norse mythology

Bragi
is the skaldic
god of poetry in
Norse mythology.
Norse and Old
In Norse religion
, Asgard
( Old Norse: Ásgarðr ; meaning
" Enclosure
of the Æsir
") is one of the Nine Worlds
and is the country or capital city
of the Norse Gods surrounded
by an incomplete wall attributed
to a Hrimthurs riding
the stallion Svaðilfari
, according
to Gylfaginning
.

One
of them
, Múnón
, married Priam's daughter
, Tróán
, and had
by her
a son
, Trór
, to be pronounced Thor in
Old Norse.

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 >

Álfheim
as an abode
of the Elves
is mentioned only twice in
Old Norse texts
.

* Gylfaginning in
Old Norse
Old Norse askr literally means
" ash tree
" but
the etymology
of embla
is uncertain
, and two possibilities
of the meaning
of embla are generally proposed
.
( from Icelandic for
" Æsir faith ", pronounced
, in
Old Norse )
is a form
of Germanic neopaganism which developed in
the United States
from the 1970s
.
is an Icelandic
( and equivalently
Old Norse ) term consisting
of two parts
.

The term
is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation
of, a neologism coined in
the context
of 19th century romantic nationalism
, used
by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason
.
( plural ),
the term used
to identify those who practice Ásatrú
is a compound
with ( Old Norse )
" man ".

A Goði or Gothi
( plural goðar )
is the historical
Old Norse term for
a priest
and chieftain in
Norse paganism
.

Ægir
is an
Old Norse word meaning
" terror
" and the name
of a destructive giant associated
with the sea ; ægis
is the genitive
( possessive ) form
of ægir
and has no direct relation
to Greek aigis
.

The exact derivation
is unclear
, with the Old English fiæll or feallan
and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates
.

Bornholm (;
Old Norse: Burgundaholmr
, " the island
of the Burgundians
") is a Danish island in
the Baltic Sea located
to the east
of ( most
of )
the rest
of Denmark
, south
of Sweden
, and north
of Poland
.

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

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 ).
Norse and ")

A draugr
, draug or
( Icelandic ) draugur
( original Old Norse plural draugar
, as used here
, not
" draugrs "), or draugen
( Norwegian
, Swedish
and Danish
, meaning
" the draug "), also known
as aptrganga (" afturgöngur
" in modern Icelandic )
( literally
" after-walker ", or
" one who walks after death
") is an undead creature
from Norse mythology, a subset
of Germanic
mythology.

The haugbui
( from the Old Norse word haugr meaning
" howe
" or
" barrow
") was
a mound-dweller
, the dead body living on within its tomb
.
In Norse mythology, Fenrir
( Old Norse: " fen-dweller "), Fenrisúlfr
( Old Norse: " Fenris wolf "), Hróðvitnir
( Old Norse: " fame-wolf "), or Vánagandr
( Old Norse: " the monster
of the river Ván
") is a monstrous wolf
.

When
the gods knew that Fenrir was fully bound
, they took
a cord called Gelgja
( Old Norse " fetter
") hanging
from Gleipnir
, inserted
the cord through
a large stone slab called Gjöll
( Old Norse " scream "),
and the gods fastened
the stone slab deep into
the ground
.

Freyr
( sometimes anglicized Frey
, from * frawjaz
" lord
") is one of the most important gods
of Norse paganism
.
In Norse mythology, Freyja
( Old Norse the " Lady
") is a goddess associated
with love
, beauty
, fertility
, gold, seiðr
, war
, and death
.
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