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Old and Norse
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 ).

Old and sources
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.

Old and trolls
In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.
She recorded a children's musical titled, " Vettene Vinner " ( Vettene Wins ), with the musical group, " Vettene ", meaning " small trolls that protect nature ", and was part of the group's record " Vettene på gamlespor " ( Vettene On Old Tracks ).
Together they have rid the Old World of trolls, skaven, beastmen, orcs, mutants, dark elves, goblins, chaos worshippers and other monsters beyond count, on several occasions they have also destroyed other much more powerful beasts such as dragons, giants, vampires and daemons, but seem doomed never to be recognized for their heroic achievements.

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