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.

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.

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.

Russian, Finnish and Estonian also have a number of Norse loanwords ; the words Rus and Russia, according to one theory, may be named after the Rus ' people, a Norse tribe ; see Rus ( name ).

Old Norse askr means " ash tree " and according to the inflectional system of Icelandic language askr Yggdrasils means " Yggdrasill's ash ".

Some of the Irish and Scots were slaves and servants of the Norse chiefs according to the Icelandic sagas and Landnámabók and other documents.

It should be remembered that the High King had ' Vikings ' in his army as well ; mainly the Hiberno-Norse of Limerick ( and probably those of Waterford, Wexford, and Cork as well ), but, according to some sources, a rival gang of Norse mercenaries from the Isle of Man.

In Norse mythology, Viðfinnr (" wood-Finn ") is the father of Hjúki and Bil, a brother and sister who, according to Gylfaginning, were taken up from the earth by Máni, the personified moon, as they were fetching water from the well Byrgir.

In Norse mythology, Nepr ( anglicized as Nep ) is the father of the goddess Nanna, according to Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning only.

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 Norse mythology Mundilfari or Mundilfäri ( Old Norse, possibly " the one moving according to particular times ") is the father of Sól, goddess associated with the Sun, and Máni, associated with the Moon.

In Norse mythology, Hati Hróðvitnisson ( first name meaning " He Who Hates, Enemy ") is a wolf that according to Gylfaginning chases the Moon across the night sky, just as the wolf Sköll chases the Sun during the day, until the time of Ragnarök when they will swallow these heavenly bodies, after which Fenrir will break free from his bonds and kill Odin.

In Norse mythology, Hymir is a giant, husband of the giantess Hroðr and according to the Eddic poem Hymiskviða the father of the god Týr.

In Norse mythology, Hrym ( Old Norse " decrepit ") is a jötunn and the captain of the ship Naglfar according to the Gylfaginning ( chapter 51 ).

* Karl ( mythology ), the ancestor of the peasants according to Norse mythology, see Ríg ( Norse god )

* * Welnos, is reconstructed as a god of cattle from Slavic Veles, and Lithuanian Velnias ( in archaic Lithuanian vėlės means ' shades ' or ' spirits of the departed '), " protector of flocks "; as well as Old Norse Ullr, and Old English Wuldor, and even the Elysian fields in Greek myth and ritual ( according to Jaan Puhvel ).

In 1946, Black noted that, according to John Paterson ( in 1867 ), the surname Aiken was an old name in the parish of Ballantrae, Ayrshire ; and that " in Orkney it is believed to have replaced the Old Norse name Haakon and its derivative Hakonson.

However, the penny was the only Norse artifact found at the site, which according to substantial evidence was a hub in a large native trade network.

* Gylfaginning in Old Norse

The Prose Edda consists of a Prologue and three separate books: Gylfaginning, concerning the creation and foretold destruction and rebirth of the Norse mythical world, Skáldskaparmál, a dialogue between Ægir, a supernatural figure connected with the sea, and Bragi, a god connected with skaldship, and Háttatal, a demonstration of verse forms used in Norse mythology.

In the Norse creation account preserved in Gylfaginning ( VIII ) it is stated that during the creation of the earth, an impassable sea was placed around the earth like a ring:

Ginnungagap appears as the primordial void in the Norse creation account, the Gylfaginning states:

The Gylfaginning deals with the creation and destruction of the world of the Norse gods, and many other aspects of Norse mythology.

* Gylfaginning in Old Norse at heimskringla. no

Michael Bell says that while Hel " might at first appear to be identical with the well-known pagan goddess of the Norse underworld " as described in chapter 34 of Gylfaginning, " in the combined light of the Old English and Old Norse versions of Nicodemus she casts quite a different a shadow ," and that in Bartholomeus saga postola " she is clearly the queen of the Christian, not pagan, underworld.

Davidson adds that, on the other hand, various other examples of " certain supernatural women " connected with death are to be found in sources for Norse mythology, that they " seem to have been closely connected with the world of death, and were pictured as welcoming dead warriors ," and that the depiction of Hel " as a goddess " in Gylfaginning " might well owe something to these.

In various poems from the Poetic Edda ( stanza 2 of Lokasenna, stanza 41 of Hyndluljóð, and stanza 26 of Fjölsvinnsmál ), and sections of the Prose Edda ( chapter 32 of Gylfaginning, stanza 8 of Haustlöng, and stanza 1 of Þórsdrápa ) Loki is alternately referred to as Loptr, which is generally considered derived from Old Norse lopt meaning " air ", and therefore points to an association with the air.

According to Norse mythology as contained in the thirteenth-century Icelandic work Prose Edda, the lake was created by the goddess Gefjon when she tricked Gylfi, the Swedish king of Gylfaginning.

In Gylfaginning by Snorri Sturluson, Gylfi, the king of ancient Scandinavia, receives an education in Norse mythology from Odin in the guise of three men.

In Norse mythology, the island was created by the goddess Gefjun after she tricked Gylfi, the king of Sweden, as told in the story of Gylfaginning.

Gylfaginning deals with the creation and destruction of the world of the Nordic gods, and many other aspects of Norse mythology.

The etymology of the Old Norse name Sæhrímnir is problematic ; in contradiction to the Gylfaginning ( and, depending upon translator, Grímnismál ) description of the animal as a boar, Sæhrímnir is, in modern scholarship, commonly proposed to mean " sooty sea-beast " or " sooty sea-animal " ( which may be connected to Old Norse seyðir, meaning ' cooking ditch ').

In Norse mythology, Þrúðgelmir (; Old Norse " Strength Yeller ") is a frost giant, the son of the primordial giant Aurgelmir ( who Snorri Sturluson in Gylfaginning identifies with Ymir ), and the father of Bergelmir.