Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Warg" ¶ 5
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Norse and mythology
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.

Norse and are
The Poetic and Prose Eddas, the oldest sources for information on the Norse concept of the afterlife, vary in their description of the several realms that are described as falling under this topic.
Old Norse askr literally means " ash tree " but the etymology of embla is uncertain, and two possibilities of the meaning of embla are generally proposed.
Norse berserkers and the Zulu battle trance are two other examples of the tendency of certain groups to work themselves up into a killing frenzy.
Similar creatures are also found in Welsh, Norse and American folklore, such as aos sí (" tumulus folk ").
There are many examples in Greek, Norse, and Hindu mythology.
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 -.
Elves are first attested in Old English and Old Norse texts and are prominent in traditional British and Scandinavian folklore.
In Old Norse they are called álfar ( nominative singular álfr ).
The Norwegian expressions seldom appear in genuine folklore, and when they do, they are always used synonymous to huldrefolk or vetter, a category of earth-dwelling beings generally held to be more related to Norse dwarves than elves which is comparable to the Icelandic huldufólk ( hidden people ).
The books are the main sources of medieval skaldic tradition in Iceland and Norse mythology.
The vast majority of the population are ethnic Faroese, of Norse descent.
Cognates are found in old Norse, Slavic and also Greek and Sanskrit.
Old Norse Frigg ( genitive Friggjar ), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frig are derived from Common Germanic Frijjō.
In Norse mythology, Geri and Freki ( Old Norse, both meaning " the ravenous " or " greedy one ") are two wolves which are said to accompany the god Odin.
Interestingly Old Norse records do not distinguish between the Goths and the Gutes ( Gotlanders ) and both are called Gotar in Old West Norse.
However, the Geats are clearly differentiated from the Goths, or Gutes, in both Old Norse and Old English literature.
Other female deities such as the valkyries, the norns, and the dísir are associated with a Germanic concept of fate ( Old Norse Ørlög, Old English Wyrd ), and celebrations were held in their honor, such as the Dísablót and Disting.
Danish and Norwegian settlement made enough of an impact to leave significant traces in the English language ; many fundamental words in modern English are derived from Old Norse, though of the 100 most used words in English the vast majority are Old English in origin.

Norse and particular
** Poetic Edda No particular authorship ; oral tradition of the Norse
The word was adopted into English in the nineteenth century from medieval Icelandic treatises on poetics, in particular the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, and derives ultimately from the Old Norse verb kenna “ know, recognise ; perceive, feel ; show ; teach ; etc .”, as used in the expression kenna við “ to name after ; to express thing in terms of ”, “ name after ; refer to in terms of ”, and kenna til “ qualify by, make into a kenning by adding ”.
There are two written sources on the origin of the name, in The Book of Icelanders ( Íslendingabók ), a historical work dealing with early Icelandic history from the 12th century, and in the medieval Icelandic saga, The Saga of Eric the Red ( Eiríks saga rauða ), which is about the Norse settlement in Greenland and the story of Erik the Red in particular.
In Norse mythology, a vargr ( often anglicised as warg or varg ) is a wolf and in particular refers to the wolf Fenrir and his sons Sköll and Hati.
The Old Norse together with the Anglo-Saxon evidence point to an astronomical myth, the name referring to a star, or a group of stars, and the Anglo-Saxon in particular points to the morning star as the herald of the rising Sun ( in Crist Christianized to refer to John the Baptist ).
It concluded that Norse invaders settled sporadically throughout the British Isles with a particular concentration in certain areas, such as Orkney and Shetland.
Scholars have theorized a potential connection between Skaði and the god Ullr ( who is also associated with skiing and appears most frequently in place names in Sweden ), a particular relationship with the jötunn Loki, and that Scandinavia may be related to the name Skaði ( potentially meaning " Skaði's island ") or the name may be connected to an Old Norse noun meaning " harm ".
In Norse mythology, a hrímthurs ( Old Norse " rime thurs ") is any one of the particular tribe of Giants who are made of ice and inhabit Niflheim, a land of eternal cold.
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 Old Norse, the beings were called jǫtnar ( singular jǫtunn, the regular reflex of the stem jǫtun-and the nominative singular ending-r ), or risar ( singular risi ), in particular bergrisar (' mountain-risar '), or þursar ( singular þurs ), in particular hrímþursar (' rime-thurs ').
The bragarfull " promise-cup " or bragafull " best cup " or " chieftain's cup " ( compare Bragi ) was in Norse culture a particular drinking from a cup or drinking horn on ceremonial occasions, often involving the swearing of oaths when the cup or horn was drunk by a chieftain or passed around and drunk by those assembled.
The early proponents of the Götaland theory proposed ideas about Västergötland, and the Lake Väner region in particular, being the origin not only of the Geats, but also of the Suiones, the Danes ; and furthermore the location of various phenomena in Norse mythology, such as Odin's Sithun ( Sigtuna ), Valhall, and the ashtree Yggdrasil.
This particular book in the series ' main plot point is the ingress of several characters-the Slavic thunder god Perun, O ' Sullivan, a werewolf, a vampire, Finnish folk legend Väinämöinen, and Taoist fangshi Zhang Guo Lao-into Asgard to kill Norse thunder god Thor, all for their own varied reasons.
Scandinavian York or Kingdom of Jórvík or Kingdom of York is a term used by historians for the kingdom of Northumbria for the period of the late 9th century and first half of the 10th century, when it was dominated by Norse warrior-kings ; in particular, used to refer to the city controlled by these kings.
In particular, the names of Old Norse mythological characters often have several different spellings.
* Norse mythology, in particular Icelandic folklore, has mermen known as Marbendlar .< ref name =" JAKOBSSON "> Ármann Jakobsson, " Hættulegur hlátur ," In < i > Úr manna minnum: Greinar um íslenskar þjóðsögur .</ i > Ed.
There have been numerous groups of such entities in Scottish culture, some of them specific to particular ethnic groups ( Gaelic, Norse, Germanic, etc.
The bragarfull " promise-cup " or bragafull " best cup " or " chieftain's cup " was in Norse culture a particular drinking from a cup or drinking horn on ceremonial occasions, often involving the swearing of oaths when the cup or horn was drunk by a chieftain or passed around and drunk by those assembled.
Old Norse Forn Siðr, Anglo-Saxon Fyrnsidu, Old High German Firner situ and its modern Scandinavian ( Forn Sed ) and modern German ( Firne Sitte ) analogues, all meaning " old custom ", is used as a term for pre-Christian Germanic culture in general, and for Germanic Neopaganism in particular, mostly by groups in Scandinavia and Germany.
Wolves feature prominently in Norse mythology, in particular the mythological wolves Fenrir, Sköll and Hati.

0.462 seconds.