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

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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 ).

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Bragi is the skaldic god of poetry in Norse mythology.

Female deities also play heavily into the Norse concept of death, where half of those slain in battle enter Freyja's field Fólkvangr, Hel receives the dead in her realm of the same name, and Rán receives those who die at sea.

In Norse mythology, Sessrúmnir ( Old Norse " seat-room " or " seat-roomer ") is both the goddess Freyja's hall located in Fólkvangr, a field where Freyja receives half of those who die in battle, and also the name of a ship.

" 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.

The word black comes from Old English blæc (" black, dark ", also, " ink "), from Proto-Germanic * blakkaz (" burned "), from Proto-Indo-European * bhleg-(" to burn, gleam, shine, flash "), from base * bhel-(" to shine "), related to Old Saxon blak (" ink "), Old High German blah (" black "), Old Norse blakkr (" dark "), Dutch blaken (" to burn "), and Swedish bläck (" ink ").

Similar creatures are also found in Welsh, Norse and American folklore, such as aos sí (" tumulus folk ").

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 notion of elves thus appears similar to the animistic belief in spirits of nature and of the deceased, common to nearly all human religions ; this is also true for the Old Norse belief in dísir, fylgjur and vörðar (" follower " and " warden " spirits, respectively ).

In relation the beauty of the Norse elves, some further evidence is given by old English words such as ælfsciene (" elf-beautiful "), used of seductively beautiful Biblical women in the Old English poems Judith and Genesis A.

The Poetic Edda, also known as Sæmundar Edda or the Elder Edda, is a collection of Old Norse poems from the Icelandic medieval manuscript Codex Regius (" Royal Book ").

In Norse mythology, Ginnungagap (" mighty gap ") was the vast, primordial void that existed prior to the creation of the manifest universe.

The mast was supported by a large wooden maststep called a kerling (" Old Woman " in Old Norse ) that was semicircular in shape.

Niflheim ( or Niflheimr ) (" Mist Home ", the " Abode of Mist " or " Mist World ") is one of the Nine Worlds and is a location in Norse mythology which overlaps with the notions of Niflhel and Hel.

Speakers of Old East Norse would have said dansk tunga (" Danish tongue ") or norrønt mál (" Nordic speech ").

The Old Irish sam (' summer ') is from Proto-Indo-European language ( PIE ) * semo -; cognates are Welsh haf, Breton hañv, English summer and Old Norse language sumar, all meaning ' summer ', and the Sanskrit sáma (" season ").

In early Germanic paganism, * Wulþuz (" glory "; Old Norse Ullr ) appears to have been a major god, or an epithet of an important god, in prehistoric times.

The latter part of the name (" ster ") comes either from the English possessive ending-s and Irish tír ( Ulaidhs tír ) or the Old Norse staðr, both of which mean " land " or " territory ".

In the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva ( a shamanic seeress ) reciting the poem to the god Odin says that she remembers far back to " early times ", being raised by jötnar, recalls nine worlds and " nine wood-ogresses " ( Old Norse nío ídiðiur ), and when Yggdrasil was a seed (" glorious tree of good measure, under the ground ").

Connections have been proposed between the wood Hoddmímis holt ( Old Norse " Hoard-Mímir's " holt ) and the tree Mímameiðr (" Mímir's tree "), generally thought to refer to the world tree Yggdrasil, and the spring Mímisbrunnr.

It is also mentioned in the Old Norse sagas as Litlikaupangr (" Little Trading Place ").

The influence of this period of Scandinavian settlement can still be seen in the North of England and the East Midlands, and is particularly evident in place-names: name endings such as-howe ,-by ( meaning " village ") or-thorp (" hamlet ") having Norse origins.

In Norse mythology, Vígríðr or Óskópnir, is a large field foretold to host a battle between the forces of the gods and the forces of Surtr as part of the events of Ragnarök.

Since the name Ski is derived from the old Norse word meaning a field used for horse racing, the arms are canting.

One theory is that it is derived from the Norse word frauđ which means " manure " and the meaning would then be " the fertilized field ".

The arms are canting from the old Norse word skeiðismór which means a field used for horse racing, hence the waving manes of the horses.

The first element is the genitive case of the word eid ( Old Norse: eiđ ) and the last element is voll ( Old Norse: vǫllr ) which means " meadow " or " field ".

The name Tynwald, like the Icelandic, is derived from the Old Norse word meaning the meeting place of the assembly, the field of the thing.

Another name, " Daker ", has been variously interpreted as onomatopoeic, or derived from the Old Norse Ager-hoene, meaning " Cock of the field "; variants include " Drake ", " Drake Hen " and " Gorse Drake ".

One is that it probably comes from the Old Norse vaett-vangr, ' field for the trial of a legal action '.

* The battle field where twenty kings lie, has been connected ( at least by Herman Lindkvist ) to the Battle of Brávellir which in Norse mythology took place not far from the location of the Rök stone about 50 years earlier.

Knowledge of Norse religion is mostly drawn from the results of archaeological field work, etymology and early written materials.

Its name first occurs as Wenge in the twelfth century, and probably came from Old Norse vengi = " field ".

This is not impossible, as there is ample evidence of place names combining words from the two languages, with Dalharn mixing the Norse word dale for field, with the Gaelic word for stones or cairn.

From the Old Norse þing vollr, meaning ' assembly field ', the name indicates that it was once the site of a Germanic thing ( or þing ).

Haugen is credited for having pioneered the field of sociolinguistics and being a leading scholar within the field of Norwegian-American studies, including Old Norse studies.

Vossevangen takes its name from the Old Norwegian word vang ( Norse Vangr ) that can mean field or meadow, and refers to a large grass field lying between the church and Vangsvatnet.

Given the large number of Norse-derived place names in Rossendale and bearing in mind that documents from the 17th century and older spell the name as Aydenfield or some variant of this, a likely etymology is the Norse " øy " ( riverside ground / island ; see for instance the village of Øyer ) + " tun " ( farmstead ) + field ; in other words, the land belonging to the farmstead by the river ( Irwell ).

The name might come from the Norse word taufr meaning ' witchcraft ', as one believes there was a sacrificial field here in the Iron age.