In Scandinavian folklore, which is a later blend of Norse mythology and elements of Christian mythology, an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv or älva in Swedish ( the first is masculine, the second feminine ).

Examples of goddesses attested in Norse mythology include Frigg ( wife of Odin, and the Anglo-Saxon version of whom is namesake of the modern English weekday Friday ), Skaði ( one time wife of Njörðr ), Njerda ( Scandinavian name of Nerthus ), that also was married to Njörðr during Bronze Age, Freyja ( wife of Óðr ), Sif ( wife of Thor ), Gerðr ( wife of Freyr ), and personifications such as Jörð ( earth ), Sól ( the sun ), and Nótt ( night ).

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

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

In Germany, awareness of Viking history in the 19th century had been stimulated by the border dispute with Denmark over Schleswig-Holstein and the use of Scandinavian mythology by Richard Wagner.

Storm himself taught the class of Scandinavian mythology, and thus Oehlenschläger received his earliest bias towards the poetical religion of his ancestors.

Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, and from the early 19th century onwards has had a powerful influence on later Scandinavian literatures, not merely through the stories it contains but through the visionary force and dramatic quality of many of the poems.

Other examples might include the wars of the Æsir with the Vanir and Jotuns in Scandinavian mythology, the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish, the Hittite " Kingship in Heaven " Kumarbi narrative, the struggle between the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Fomorians in Celtic mythology, and the obscure generational conflict in Ugaritic fragments.

* Scandinavian mythology

* Idavoll, in Scandinavian mythology the plain on which Asgard is built

* Rå, a creature in Scandinavian mythology

* Another name for the tomte, a mythical creature in Scandinavian mythology

In Scandinavian folklore, belief in the old gods still exists, but not in the form they show in high mythology.

* Dag or Dagr, the god of daytime in Norse mythology and a common Scandinavian first name

There he met Jakob Grimm, at whose recommendation he first became interested in Scandinavian literature and mythology.

In Scandinavian mythology a Norwegian king by the same name exists, Áli ( the Old Norse form of Onela, also rendered as Ole, Åle or Ale ), who had the cognomen hinn Upplenzki (" from Oppland ").

She is not known by name in Nordic mythology, and if she refers to the moon, she is then different from the Scandinavian ( Mani ), who is male.

Early medieval North Germanic Scandinavian ( Viking Age ) beliefs are much better documented than its predecessors, notably via the records of Norse mythology in the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, as well as the sagas, written in Iceland during 1150-1400.

For instance, Scandinavian mythology says Berserkers could drink a mixture called " butotens ", perhaps prepared from the Amanita muscaria mushroom, to increase their physical power a dozen times at the risk of insanity.

Many of these are derived from folklore, primarily Greek mythology, but also British and Scandinavian folklore.

Scholars have linked the ever-replenishing goats to the nightly-consumed beast Sæhrímnir in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folk beliefs involving herring bones and witchcraft.

Hake, Haki or Haco, the brother of Hagbard, was a famous Scandinavian sea-king, in Norse mythology.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

In Denmark, recent archaeological excavations at Lejre, where Scandinavian tradition located the seat of the Scyldings, i. e., Heorot, have revealed that a hall was built in the mid-6th century, exactly the time period of Beowulf.

Early studies into Scandinavian sources / analogues proposed that Beowulf was a translation of an original Scandinavian work, but this idea has been discarded.

The original Old English language was then influenced by two waves of invasion ; the first was by language speakers of the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family ; they conquered and colonised parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries.

In 1957 the Scandinavian Balalaika Association was formed.

Before that, ancestors had used the patronymic naming system of Scandinavian countries: his father was named Ingemarsson after his father Ingemar Bengtsson.

The subsequent Scandinavian settlement was on the River Poddle, a tributary of the Liffey in an area now known as Wood Quay.

Meanwhile, the Hanseatic League was gaining in power, threatening Scandinavian commerce.

Between 2003 and 2006, in Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries FNC was broadcast 16 hours a day on TV8 ( with Fox News Extra segments replacing U. S. advertising ).

This culture replaced the local Oksywie or Oxhöft culture in the 1st century, when a Scandinavian settlement was established in a buffer zone between the Oksywie culture and the Przeworsk culture.

This area was influenced by southern Scandinavian culture from as early as the late Nordic Bronze Age and early Pre-Roman Iron Age ( ca.

The part of the Wielbark culture that moved was the oldest portion, located west of the Vistula and still practicing Scandinavian burial traditions.

He was immensely popular not only in Germany but in the rest of Europe as well: orders for editions of Telemann's music came from France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, and Spain.

Another Scandinavian people, the Rus ' people, would go on to found Kievan Rus ', an early state which was a precursor for the modern country of Russia.

The first of these was printed as De l ' Histoire de la poésie ( 1830 ), and was practically the first introduction of the French public to the Scandinavian and German epics.

Legal realism was a view popular with some Scandinavian and American writers.

Their common enemy was the Hanseatic League and the growing German influence over the Scandinavian economy.

After the album's completion, the band were forced to change their name after Dreja issued a cease and desist letter, stating that Page was only allowed to use the New Yardbirds moniker for the Scandinavian dates.

The team was officially named the Minnesota Vikings on September 27, 1960 ; the name is partly meant to reflect Minnesota's place as a center of Scandinavian American culture.

In northern Europe the Inquisition was somewhat more benign: in the Scandinavian countries it had hardly any impact.

This was especially the case with Scandinavian royalty and nobility.