Further evidence for elves in Norse mythology comes from Skaldic poetry, the Poetic Edda and legendary sagas.

Gangleri is then challenged to show his wisdom by asking questions, as is the custom in many Norse sagas.

Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings ' sagas.

The historians of mid-19th century put great trust in the factual truth of Snorri's narrative, as well as other old Norse sagas.

The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied.

The Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern was a 6th century battle recorded in the Norse sagas and referred to in the Old English epic Beowulf.

Archaeology has given support to the long-held theory that old Norse sagas show Vikings reached North America approximately five centuries prior to the voyages of Christopher Columbus.

The main sources of information about the Norse voyages to Vinland are two Icelandic sagas, the Saga of Eric the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders.

It is most likely this was the main settlement of the sagas, a " gateway " for the Norse Greenlanders to the rich lands farther south.

These travels explain as well how the vinviðir ( wine wood ) the Norse were cutting down in the sagas is actually referring to the vines of Vitis riparia a species of wild grape that grows on trees.

Our knowledge about arms and armour of the Viking age is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representation, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and Norse laws recorded in the 13th century.

Norse mythology, sagas and literature tell of Scandinavian culture and religion through tales of heroic and mythological heroes.

Many of these sagas were written in Iceland, and most of them, even if they had no Icelandic provenance, were preserved there after the Middle Ages due to the Icelanders ' continued interest in Norse literature and law codes.

The new dictionaries of the Old Norse language enabled the Victorians to grapple with the primary Icelandic sagas.

* In Harry Harrison's The Technicolor Time Machine ( 1967 ), main characters go back in time to shoot a movie about founding a Viking colony in North America, only to discover to their surprise that the colony they founded turned out to be written into the history as the original Viking colony in North America — and some of them are even featured in Norse sagas.

Some historians, such as Lauritz Weibull, have argued that Sweyn's wife described in the sagas – Swedish dowager queen Sigrid the Haughty – is purely fictional, whereas others have accepted her existence on the evidence of the Norse sagas.

Since in the Norse sagas the king of Vindland is always Burislav, this is reconcilable with the assumption that her father was Mieszko ( not his son Bolesław ).

Malusha is described in the Norse sagas as a prophetess who lived to the age of 100 and was brought from her cave to the palace to predict the future.

The Norse sagas present Harald in a rather negative light.

Nestor's many sources included earlier ( now-lost ) Slavonic chronicles, the Byzantine annals of John Malalas and George Hamartolus, native legends and Norse sagas, several Greek religious texts, Rus '- Byzantine treaties, and oral accounts of Yan Vyshatich and other military leaders.

Ragnar Lodbrok ( Ragnar " Hairy-Breeks ", Old Norse: Ragnarr Loðbrók ) was a Norse legendary hero from the Viking Age who was thoroughly reshaped in Old Norse poetry and legendary sagas.

In the beginning it was frequently used as a military retainer ( Old Norse: " hird "- man ) of King Olav.

In various Indo-European mythologies, gigantic peoples are featured as primeval creatures associated with chaos and the wild nature, and they are frequently in conflict with the gods, be they Olympian, Nartian, Hindu or Norse.

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 ".

Through his mother Gruffudd had close family connections with the Norse settlement around Dublin and he frequently used Ireland as a refuge and as a source of troops.

The Norse Earldom was frequently under joint rule.

Burravoe's name derives partly from a nearby broch-the element " Burra " frequently being a corruption of the Norse for one.

The themes for these works are frequently drawn from Christ's consciousness, deep Cosmic spirituality like the eternal, infinite body and consciousness of the universe or God, Icelandic Mythology ( Understanding of the so called Norse mythology or North-East, North-West and even Central-European War-Godhs mythology is just a part of Icelandic Mythology and understanding or description of these is mostly derived from the Icelandic one ) and Icelandic folk tales.

Surviving accounts of Germanic mythology and later Norse mythology contain numerous tales and mentions of female goddesses, female giantesses, and divine female figures.

Scholarly theories have been proposed about Hel's potential connections to figures appearing in the 11th century Old English Gospel of Nicodemus and Old Norse Bartholomeus saga postola, potential Indo-European parallels to Bhavani, Kali, and Mahakali, and her origins.

In Norse mythology, Ragnarök (, or ), typically spelled Ragnarǫk in the handwritten scripts, is a series of future events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures ( including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki ), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water.

The mid-11th century Gosforth Cross located in Cumbria, England, has been interpreted as featuring various figures from Norse mythology.

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.

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.

Yaroslav figures prominently in the Norse Sagas under the name of Jarisleif the Lame ; his legendary lameness ( probably resulting from an arrow wound ) was corroborated by the scientists who examined his remains.

Norse sources have identified the two as the same since the late 12th century, and while the subject was controversial among early modern historians, most historians have identified the two figures as the same since W. G. Collingwood's article in 1901.

In Norse mythology, a valkyrie ( from Old Norse valkyrja " chooser of the slain ") is one of a host of female figures who decide who dies and lives in battle.

The character has been compared to other trickster figures, such as the Irish hero Bricriu Nemthenga and the Norse god Loki.

Tyrfing, Tirfing or Tyrving ( The name is of uncertain origin, possibly connected to the Terwingi ) was a magic sword in Norse mythology, which figures in the Tyrfing Cycle, which includes a poem from the Poetic Edda called Hervararkviða, and the Hervarar saga.

Scholarly theories have been proposed about the etymology of her name, and her connection with other figures in Norse mythology.

" Notwithstanding their folkloric associations, there is no etymological connection between dragons and the ghoulish figures known as draugar in Old Norse, who haunt rich burial mounds.

Vestre Sildre figures prominently in the Norse Sagas:

" This prince of Argyll is one of the best known historical figures from the Gàidhealtachd of Scotland, and is known in Gaelic as Somairle mac Gille Brigte, although his Norse name, Somarlidi, has the literal meaning of " summer traveller ", a common name for a Viking.

Much of the foundation of his theory, they point out, is based on similarities between names of figures from Norse mythology and geographical place-names of the present time in the Pontic steppe and Caucasus.

The names of numerous figures from different periods of Norse history and lore are used for characters in the movie, including Freya, Loki, Halfdan the Black, Ivar the Boneless, Thorfinn Skullsplitter, Leif the Lucky, and Mord Fiddle.

Norwegian places called Disin, from Old Norse Dísavin, " meadow of the dísir ," and the possible relationship of the word to the Indian dhīsanas have suggested to some scholars that the dísir were fertility figures.

Olrik ( 1918 ) nevertheless recognized a number of Norse gods among the figures, including Tyr, Odin, Thor and Freyr.

It features a large-scale group of animal figures being driven by the legendary Norse goddess, Gefjun.

Somewhere between Albion and Hibernia in its mix of Norse historical figures and mythology, and inventions of Mythic Entertainment.

Additionally among the Norse, Raven banner standards were carried by such figures as the Jarls of Orkney, King Canute the Great of England, Norway and Denmark, and Harald Hardrada.

Examples of flyting are found throughout Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Medieval literature involving both historical and mythological figures.