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.

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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.

Valhalla is mentioned in euhemerized form and as an element of remaining Norse pagan belief in Heimskringla.

* Valhalla, a similar location in Norse mythology

So entirely did even his immediate circle ignore his religion that Eyvindr Skáldaspillir, his court poet, composed the poem Hákonarmál on his death, representing his reception by the Norse gods into Valhalla.

Óskmey may be related to the Odinic name Óski ( Old Norse, roughly meaning " wish fulfiller "), referring to the fact that Odin receives slain warriors in Valhalla.

Richard North says that the description of a raven flying over the Egyptian army ( glossed as wonn wælceaseg ) may have been directly influenced by the Old Norse concept of Valhalla, the usage of wælcyrge in De laudibus virginitatis may represent a loan or loan-translation of Old Norse valkyrja, but the Cotton Cleopatra A. iii and the Corpus Glossary instances " appear to show an Anglo-Saxon conception of wælcyrge that was independent of contemporary Scandinavian influence ".

One account by Ahmad ibn Fadlan as part of his account of an embassy to the Volga Bulgars in 921 claims that Norse warriors were sometimes buried with enslaved women with the belief that these women would become their wives in Valhalla.

It is the Irish equivalent of the Greek Elysium or the Valhalla of the Norse.

In Norse mythology, Gullinkambi ( Old Norse " golden comb ") is a rooster who lives in Valhalla.

In Norse mythology, the einherjar ( Old Norse " lone fighters ") are those that have died in battle and are brought to Valhalla by valkyries.

In chapter 20, Third tells Gangleri ( described as king Gylfi in disguise ) that Odin is called Valföðr ( Old Norse " father of the slain ") " since all those who fall in battle are his adopted sons ," and that Odin assigns them places in Valhalla and Vingólf where they are known as einherjar.

In Norse mythology, Fólkvangr (" field of the host " or " people-field " or " army-field ") is a meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja where half of those that die in combat go upon death, while the other half go to the god Odin in Valhalla.

In Norse mythology, Glaðsheimr ( Old Norse " bright home ") is a realm in Asgard where Odin's hall of Valhalla is located according to Grímnismál.

In the Old Norse Eiríksmál it is Sigmund and his nephew Sinfjötli (= Fitela ) who are sent to greet the dead King Eirík Bloodaxe and welcome him to Valhalla while in the Hákonarmál it is Bragi and Hermóðr who are sent to greet King Hákon the Good in the same situation, potentially suggesting an equivalence between the two was seen.

" 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.

* Valhallen ( voiced by Tom Kenny )-A superhero who resembled Thor, and his name was a portmanteau of Valhalla, the spiritual plane of Norse mythology, and Van Halen, an American rock band.

Plant's lyrics with Led Zeppelin were often mystical, philosophical and spiritual, alluding to events in classical and Norse mythology, such as " Immigrant Song ", which refers to Valhalla and Viking conquests.

This name is appropriate, as Valhalla is a heavenly abode in Norse mythology.

* In the 2007 made-for-TV movie on the SciFi Channel, Wraiths of Roanoke Virginia Dare is the sole survivor after the colony is wiped out by Old Norse ghosts, or wraiths, who had died on the island centuries earlier but failed to achieve transit to Valhalla.

Valhall is an anglicized form of Old Norse Valhöll, an afterlife " hall of the slain " in Norse mythology, which is more commonly anglicized as Valhalla.

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 >

( from Icelandic for " Æsir faith ", pronounced, in Old Norse ) is a form of Germanic neopaganism which developed in the United States from the 1970s.

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 ).

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 ").

For example, the English words shirt and skirt are doublets ; the former derives from the Old English sċyrte, while the latter is loaned from Old Norse skyrta, both of which derive from the Proto-Germanic * skurtjōn -.

In some cases, such as " shirt " and " skirt ", one of the cognate pairs has an ultimate source in another language related to English, while the other one is native, as happened with many loanwords from Old Norse borrowed during the Danelaw.

Crannogs were used as dwellings over five millennia from the European Neolithic Period, to as late as the 17th / early 18th century although in Scotland, convincing evidence for Early and Middle Bronze Age or Norse Period use is not currently present in the archaeological record.

The name " dill " comes from Old English dile, thought to have originated from a Norse or Anglo-Saxon word dylle meaning to soothe or lull, the plant having the carminative property of relieving gas.

Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the East Norse dialect group, while the old Norwegian dialects before the influence of Danish and Bokmål is classified as a West Norse language together with Faroese and Icelandic.