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.

One of them, Múnón, married Priam's daughter, Tróán, and had by her a son, Trór, to be pronounced Thor in Old Norse.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

Álfheim as an abode of the Elves is mentioned only twice in Old Norse texts.

* Gylfaginning in Old Norse

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.

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.

Ægir ( Old Norse " sea ") is a sea giant, god of the ocean and king of the sea creatures in Norse mythology.

( from Icelandic for " Æsir faith ", pronounced, in Old Norse ) is a form of Germanic neopaganism which developed in the United States from the 1970s.

is an Icelandic ( and equivalently Old Norse ) term consisting of two parts.

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

( plural ), the term used to identify those who practice Ásatrú is a compound with ( Old Norse ) " man ".

A Goði or Gothi ( plural goðar ) is the historical Old Norse term for a priest and chieftain in Norse paganism.

Ægir is an Old Norse word meaning " terror " and the name of a destructive giant associated with the sea ; ægis is the genitive ( possessive ) form of ægir and has no direct relation to Greek aigis.

The exact derivation is unclear, with the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates.

Bornholm (; Old Norse: Burgundaholmr, " the island of the Burgundians ") is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea located to the east of ( most of ) the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, and north of Poland.

This would have been a burial fitting a king who was famous for his wealth in Old Norse sources.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

There are five main categories in which potential sources and / or analogues are included: Scandinavian parallels, classical sources, Irish sources and analogues, ecclesiastical sources, and echoes in other Old English texts.

The Bible can fall into both the category of ecclesiastical sources and also this category, as the Beowulf poet would have relied on Old English translations.

Old Khmer is attested by many primary sources and has been studied in depth by a few scholars, most notably Saveros Pou, Phillip Jenner and Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow.

This was despite noticeable tensions between East Cambridge, Cambridgeport, and Old Cambridge that stemmed from differences in in each area's culture, sources of income, and the national origins of the residents.

Some sources derive the name of the weapon from the name of its first users — bernarda troopers called " carabiniers ", from the French carabine, from the Old French carabin ( soldier armed with a musket ), perhaps from escarrabin, gravedigger, perhaps from scarabee, scarab beetle.

Among those noted by the Irish annals, the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are Ívarr — Ímar in Irish sources — who was active from East Anglia to Ireland, Halfdán — Albdann in Irish, Healfdene in Old English — and Amlaíb or Óláfr.

In Old French sources this then became Escalibor, Excalibor and finally the familiar Excalibur.

The term Edda ( Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur ) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century in Icelandic, although they contain material from earlier traditional sources, reaching into the Viking Age.

Along with her brother Freyr ( Old Norse the " Lord "), her father Njörðr, and her mother ( Njörðr's sister, unnamed in sources ), she is a member of the Vanir.

However, as with the rest of the Ring, Wagner's account of this apocalypse diverges significantly from his Old Norse sources.

550-330 BC ), the surrounding district was known as Haraiva ( in Old Persian ), and in classical sources the region was correspondingly known as Aria ( Areia ).

Justin occasionally uses the Gospel of Matthew directly as a source for Old Testament prophecies to supplement his testimony sources.

The name Mecklenburg derives from a castle named " Mikilenburg " ( Old Saxon: " big castle ", thus the Grecised name variant Megalopolis used in Medieval Latin sources ), located between the cities of Schwerin and Wismar.

There are a number of surviving Old Norse sources that relate to the norns.

The apocryphal phrase was, in fact, attributed to the Old Guard's commander, Pierre Cambronne but whose actual reply was later asserted by other sources to be " Merde!

Saint Olga (, also called Olga Prekrasna ( Ольга Прекрасна ), or Olga the Beauty, hypothetically Old Norse: Helga ; in some Scandinavian sources she was called by other names.

The term was found ( in the spelling " petraoleum ") in 10th-century Old English sources.

Rheged () is described in poetic sources as one of the kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd (" Old North "), the Brythonic-speaking region of what is now northern England and southern Scotland, during the Early Middle Ages.

According to the later thirteenth century Old French Continuation of William of Tyre, Raynald captured Saladin's sister in a raid on a caravan, although this claim is not attested in contemporary sources, Muslim or Frankish, instead stating that Raynald had attacked a preceding caravan, and Saladin set guards to ensure the safety of his sister and her son, who came to no harm.

While the name Sigyn is found as a female personal name in Old Norse sources ( Old Norse sigr meaning " victory " and vina meaning " girl-friend "), and though in surviving sources she is largely restricted to a single role, she appears in the 9th century Haustlöng from pagan times, written by the skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir.

In Norse mythology, Völsung ( Old Norse: Vǫlsungr ) was the son of Rerir and the eponymous ancestor of the ill-fortuned Völsung clan ( Vǫlsungar ), including the greatest of Norse heroes, Sigurð.

The city saw several Old West gunfights related to clan feuding following the Civil War

The name " Birmingham " comes from the Old English Beormingahām, meaning the home or settlement of the Beormingas – a tribe or clan whose name literally means " Beorma's people " and which may have formed an early unit of Anglo-Saxon administration.

As was traditional among the matrilineal Lakota, in which the children belonged to the mother's clan and people, Red Cloud was mentored as a boy by his maternal uncle, Old Chief Smoke ( 1774 – 1864 ).

It can refer to the clans of the Scylfings ( Old Norse Skilfingar ), the semi-legendary royal Swedish clan during the Age of Migrations, with kings such as Eadgils, Onela and Ohthere.

The name has been derived from either the Old Persian * viƒa / visapati “ head of the clan ”, or in more likelihood aspapati, later aspbad /- bed which designated the Iranian office of Master of the Horse ( commander of the cavalry ).

Beowulf and Old Norse sources present him as the son of Ohthere and as belonging to the ruling Yngling ( Scylfing ) clan.

The Scandinavian clan or ætt ( pronounced in Old Norse ) was a social group based on common descent or on the formal acceptance into the group at a þing.

While the poet of Beowulf does not locate the Wulfings geographically, Scandinavian sources define the Ylfings ( the Old Norse form of the name ) as the ruling clan of the Eastern Geats.

Maleševci () is a Serb clan which held lands in Old Herzegovina, in modern western Montenegro, in the Middle Ages.

Unknown to the Old Man, his cave is near the underground home of the Gorn, a clan of Scottish pixies, who are responsible for pushing up the spring flowers in Scotland.

The Gewisse ( Old English Geuissæ ) was a tribe or clan of Anglo-Saxon England, based in the upper Thames region around Dorchester-on-Thames.

These Old mosques of emperor Khilji an Afghan Dynasty and Tughlaq a clan of Turkish origin can be visited during the visit of the walled town.

Old traditions also require people with the same surname or from the same clan to gather at their ancestral temples to worship on this day.

A member of the Del Mar clan of Pari-an, one of the original twenty-eight wealthy families of Old Cebu, he is also the father of Rep. Cutie Del Mar.

950 ), it is found in the Old Turkic Yula, and in the Khitan clan name Yila, in the Mongolian Jangar epos in the form Jula and in Mongolian expression “ joloo ” with a meaning " rein ", earlier this title appeared when was established the Turkic empire Turkic Khaganate.

Having old English ancestry, Keating's political view was that Ireland's nobility and natural leadership derived from the surviving Gaelic clan chiefs and Old English landed families who had remained Roman Catholic.

This was the clan of Kubrat who founded Old Great Bulgaria, and his sons Batbayan, Kotrag and Asparuh, the latter of which founded Danube Bulgaria.

Sanskrit vit settlement ; Old Iranian vis clan, house, village.

* Gangrel ( Old World of Darkness ), a fictional clan of vampires in the role-playing game Vampire: the Masquerade

* plant and clan ( from Latin, the latter via Old Irish )

The picture represents Khan Kubrat-founder and ruler of Old Great Bulgaria from the Dulo clan sitting in his throne with his sons around him.

The Myrgings were a clan and peoples of Saxon origin who, together with their king Eadgils, are only mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith.

Although the Myrgings only appear in the Old English poem Widsith and not in any other source, there is enough evidence to say that the Myrgings vanished leaving no other trace: if a rival clan, they were assimilated into the surrounding Angles ; and if non-Angles conquered by Offa, who was said to have won a great Kingdom, very likely that of the conquered Myrgings, they seem to have been assimilated under his son Angentheow, who abolished the title of King of the Myrgings.