Major works of that period include Historia Norwegie, Thidreks saga and Konungs skuggsjá.

The period of common Old Norse literature continued up through the 13th century with Norwegian contributions such as Thidreks saga and Konungs skuggsjá but by the 14th century saga writing was no longer cultivated in Norway and Icelandic literature became increasingly isolated.

The influence of the reforms is also apparent in Haakon's King's Mirror ( Konungs skuggsjá ), an educational text intended for his son Magnus, which was probably written in cooperation with the royal court in the mid-1250s.

The texts dealing with royal power in medieval Norway, the Heimskringla and the Konungs skuggsjá (" King's Mirror "), explicit the link between a king or leader and his retainers ( housecarls and hirðmenn ).

There was a special fine for the killing of a king's man, which in Konungs skuggsjá is underlined as an advantage of entering the king's service.

A wild man is described in Konungs skuggsjá ( Speculum Regale or " the King's Mirror "), written in Norway around 1250:

These creatures later described in an Old Norwegian scientific work Konungs skuggsjá ( c. 1250 ), were to come to be understood as what the Norse regarded as the Kraken.

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Parts of Konungs skuggsjá deals with the relationship between church and state.

Der altnorwegische Königsspiegel ( Konungs skuggsjá ) in der europäischen Tradition.

Studier over Konungs skuggsjá.

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Konungs Skuggsjá: Speculum Regale.

The author of the Norwegian book Konungs Skuggsjá, from around 1250, discusses the existence of antipodes.

* Tolkien: Hervarar Saga ok Heidreks Konungs.

* Konungs Skuggsjá and Hirdskraa.

Konungs Skuggsjá.

Handskriftene av Konungs Skuggsja.

The King ’ s Mirror ( Speculum regale-Konungs skuggsjá ).

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 ).