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.

* 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.

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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.

Category: Artifacts in Norse mythology

Bragi is the skaldic god of poetry in Norse mythology.

Ulla Loumand cites Sleipnir and the flying horse Hófvarpnir as " prime examples " of horses in Norse mythology as being able to " mediate between earth and sky, between Ásgarðr, Miðgarðr and Útgarðr and between the world of mortal men and the underworld.

Ulla Loumand cites Hófvarpnir and the eight-legged horse Sleipnir as " prime examples " of horses in Norse mythology as being able to " mediate between earth and sky, between Ásgarðr, Miðgarðr and Útgarðr and between the world of mortal men and the underworld.

They experienced Norse incursions during the early Middle Ages and then became part of the Kingdom of Scotland in the 13th century.

This began a process whereby the islands of the Clyde became Scottish in language and culture rather than Norse.

Their language, Old Norse, became the mother-tongue of present-day Nordic languages.

The long-term linguistic effect of the Viking settlements in England was threefold: over a thousand Old Norse words eventually became part of Standard English ; numerous places in the East and North-east of England have Danish names, and many English personal names are of Scandinavian origin.

Old Norse visundr, Old High German wisunt ); the Old English word wesend from this root became extinct in premodern times.

The Western Isles became part of the Norse kingdom of the Suðreyjar, which lasted for over 400 years until sovereignty was transferred to Scotland by the Treaty of Perth in 1266.

* Rollo of Normandy, the founder and first ruler of the Viking principality in what soon became known as Normandy ( in Old Norse sources identified with Hrolf Ganger )

Rollo ( c. 846 – c. 931 ), baptised Robert and so sometimes numbered Robert I to distinguish him from his descendants, was a Norse nobleman of Norwegian or Danish descent and founder and first ruler of the Viking principality in what soon became known as Normandy.

This kingdom later became the trade and cultural center of the north, because it stood on a very strategic position creating a monopoly over the trade among the Arabs, the Norse and the Avars.

The period of common Old Norse literature continued up through the 13th century with Norwegian contributions such as Thidreks saga and Konungs skuggsjá but by the 14th century saga writing was no longer cultivated in Norway and Icelandic literature became increasingly isolated.

The first records of Herm's inhabitants in historic times are from the 6th century, when the island became a centre of monastic activity ; the name ' Herm ' supposedly derives from hermits who settled there ( although an alternative interpretation derives Herm from Norse erm referring to an arm-like appearance of the island ).

MacLeod and Mees theorize that " the role of the corpse-choosing valkyries became increasingly confused in later Norse mythology with that of the Norns, the supernatural females responsible for determining human destiny [...].

Pirate raids, conflict with Inuit moving into the Norse territories, and the colony's abandonment by Norway became other factors in its decline.

Erik himself remained a follower of Norse paganism, unlike his son Leif and Leif's wife, who became Christians.

Brodeur was a professor at Berkeley and became well known for his scholarship on Beowulf and Norse sagas.

Brodeur was a professor at Berkeley and became well known for his scholarship on Beowulf and other Norse sagas.

After the Norse settlements in what became Yorkshire, Northumberland was effectively cut in two.

Danish and Norse attacks on southern Northumbria caused its power to falter and the northern portion became equally open to annexation by Scotland.

The Old Norse name of the island was Lófót ( see Lofoten )-but when Lofoten became the name of the whole archipelago, the old name was replaced with Vestvågøy.

Following Viking expeditions to the islands they called the Suðreyjar in the eighth century, Raasay became part of the Norse Kingdom of the Isles and for much of the period religious observance came under the jurisdiction of the Bishopric of the Isles.

The coasts of Wales were subjected to Norse raids during the Viking Era and, in the latter 10th century, Norse trading posts and settlements became established.

Though the clans had always been a feature of pre-Christian Scotland and Ireland, they first emerged into English consciousness from the turmoil of the 12th and 13th centuries when the Scottish crown pacified northern rebellions and re-conquered areas taken by the Norse, and after the fall of Macbeth when the crown became increasingly Anglo-Norman.

Not coincidentally, while became English scoff, the Old Norse lives on in a Modern English word of similarly deprecating meaning, scold.