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.

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 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.

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.

In Norse mythology, Draupnir ( Old Norse " the dripper ") is a gold ring possessed by the god Odin with the ability to multiply itself: Every ninth night eight new rings ' drip ' from Draupnir, each one of the same size and weight as the original.

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.