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

Category: Locations in Norse mythology

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 ).

Category: Locations in Norse mythology

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.

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.

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.

* Barrett, James H. " The Norse in Scotland " in Brink, Stefan ( ed ) ( 2008 ) The Viking World.

Carl Christian Rafn, in the first detailed study of the Norse exploration of the New World, " Antiquitates Americanae " ( 1837 ), interpreted these times as equivalent to 7. 30am and 4. 30pm, which would put the base a long way south of Newfoundland.

In Norse mythology the World Serpent ( or Midgard serpent ) known as Jörmungandr encircled the world in the ocean's abyss biting its own tail.

Níðhöggr gnaws the roots of Yggdrasil in this illustration from a 17th century Icelandic manuscript. Similarly Níðhöggr ( Nidhogg Nagar ) the dragon of Norse mythology eats from the roots of the Yggdrasil, the World Tree.

Jörmungandr, alternately referred to as the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent, is a sea serpent of the Norse mythology, the middle child of Loki and the giantess Angrboða.

* Maine penny: May be a sign of pre-Columbian Norse contact with the New World.

In Norse mythology, Níðhöggr ( Malice Striker, often anglicized Nidhogg ) is a dragon who gnaws at a root of the World Tree, Yggdrasill.

In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (, pronounced ), often written Jormungand, or Jörmungand and also known as the Midgard Serpent (), or World Serpent, is a sea serpent, the middle child of the giantess Angrboða and the god Loki.

* Judith Gabriel, Among the Norse tribes, 1990, Saudi Aramco World

Much of the appeal of the series stems from its extensive use of references and allusions from a wide array of thinkers such as Teilhard de Chardin, John Muir, Norbert Wiener, and to the poetry of John Keats, a famous English Romantic poet of the 19th century, Norse Mythology, and the monk Ummon ; a large number of technological elements are acknowledged by Simmons to be inspired by elements of Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.

* Barrett, James H. " The Norse in Scotland " in Brink, Stefan ( ed ) ( 2008 ) The Viking World.

The Winter of the World, a fantasy series by Michael Scott Rohan combines mythical elements from Norse and Old English sources, including the forging of a sword resembling the Curtana, a character being captured and forced to forge items by a king while crippled and imprisoned on an island, and creating a set of wings to escape from imprisonment.

In this way the tale links first to Saxon England of Alfred the Great, then to the Lombard Alboin of St. Benedict's time, the Baltic Sea in Old Norse days, Ireland at the time of the Tuatha Dé's coming ( 600 years after the Flood ), prehistoric North in the Ice Age, a ' Galdor story ' of Third Age Middle-earth, and finally the Fall of Gil-galad, before recounting the prime legend of the Downfall of Númenor / Atlantis and the Bending of the World.

Yggdrasil is the World Tree of Norse mythology.

The powerful oak as the Summer Tree is similar to Yggdrasil, the World Ash Tree of Norse mythology.

After many years of raiding by Norse tribes, the Elves began to hear of the human Empire in the Old World, and became uneasy.

The Drasil trees ' name resembles that of the Norse " World Tree ", Yggdrasil.

The rune is sometimes associated with the World tree Yggdrasil, which, imagined as an ash in Norse mythology, may formerly have been a yew or an oak.

Shortly afterwards, she tried to access the power of a mystical convergence using a Runestaff made from the roots of Yggdrasil, the Norse World Tree.

Yggdrasil, the World Ash ( Norse )

The Yggdrasil, or World Ash, functions in much the same way in Norse mythology ; it is the site where Odin found enlightenment.

* Yggdrasil ( World Ash Tree in Norse cosmology )

Before the discovery of Lustria by the Norse, a trading vessel from the Old World was caught in the fierce currents off the coast of Araby and swept into the swirling waters of Ulthuan.