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.

A troll is a supernatural being in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore.

In origin, one of the meanings of the term troll was a negative synonym for a jötunn ( plural jötnar ), a being in Norse mythology, although the word was also used about witches, berserkers and various other evil magical figures.

In Scandinavian folklore, the Norwegian name tusse for a kind of troll or nisse, derives from Old Norse Þurs.

In Norse mythology, Miming was a forest-dwelling troll, the son of Hothbrod and foster son of Gevar.

The name comes from trold meaning troll and haug from the Old Norse word haugr meaning hill or knoll.

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:

Tolkien, by science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick, by central figures of Western literature like Leo Tolstoy, Virgil and The Brontë sisters, and including feminist writers like Virginia Woolf, by children's literature like Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows and The Jungle Book, by Norse mythology, and by books from the Eastern tradition such as the Tao Te Ching.

Alex Woolf has suggested that there occurred a formal division of Dál Riata between the Norse-Gaelic Uí Ímair and the natives, like those divisions that took place elsewhere in Ireland and Britain, with the Norse controlling most of the islands, and the Gaels controlling the Scottish coast and the more southerly islands.

Perkele is the god associated with thunder in Finnish mythology, like Thor of Norse mythology.

In Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic the Old Norse form has survived to this day ( in Icelandic only as a less used synonym to gluggi ), in Swedish the word vindöga remains as a term for a hole through the roof of a hut, and in the Danish language ‘ vindue ’ and Norwegian Bokmål ‘ vindu ’, the direct link to ‘ eye ’ is lost, just like for ' window '.

Ultimately — like much fantasy — it draws from mythology and classical epics such as Homer's Odyssey and the Norse sagas.

Its name is derived from the Old Norse word nár, meaning " corpse ", in reference to the animal's greyish, mottled pigmentation, like that of a drowned sailor.

Alliterative verse was an important ingredient of poetry in Old English and other old Germanic languages like Old High German, Old Norse, and Old Saxon.

Tolkien took the name Durin, like most of the dwarf names in his work, from Norse mythology.

Other terms are taken not from Norse mythology, but from the Welsh mythology encapsulated in Mediaeval texts like the Mabinogion.

Some have given the etymology of Uist from Old Norse meaning " west ", much like Westray in the Orkney Islands.

While in most the Romance languages the Germans have been named from the Swabians or Alamanni ( some, like standard Italian, retain an older borrowing of the endonym ), the Old Norse, Finnish and Estonian names of the Germans was taken from that of the Saxons.

Most bands tune in the key of E and the lyrics focus on themes like darkness, cold, sorrow, depression, evil, satanism and Norse mythology.

Burhou, like many other Channel Islands ( e. g. Lihou, Jethou ), has the Norman suffix-hou, meaning a small island, from the Old Norse holmr.

In the Yorkshire and former Danelaw areas of England, which like Wirral and north west England were subject to much Norse invasion and settlement, wapentakes ( another name for the same institution ) were, until recently, still used in public records.

The word has cognates in most other Germanic languages, like Old Norse and Old Frisian lik, Gothic leik, Dutch lijk, German leiche and Danish lig, ultimately being derived from Proto-Germanic * likow.

The name Millom was in use prior to the Norman conquest for the lands known as Millom and the name is, therefore, like Haverigg, et al, of Norse origin.

Possessive invocation has also been described in certain Norse rites where Odin is invoked to " ride " workers of seidr ( Norse shamanism ), much like the god rides his eight-legged horse Sleipnir.

The name Tynwald, like the Icelandic, is derived from the Old Norse word meaning the meeting place of the assembly, the field of the thing.