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 ).

Týr (; Old Norse: Týr ) is the god of Law, the althing, Justice, The Sky, and heroic glory in Norse mythology, portrayed as a one-handed man.

The English name is derived from Old English Tiwesdæg and Middle English Tewesday, meaning " Tīw's Day ", the day of Tiw or Týr, the god of single combat, victory and heroic glory in Norse mythology.

Tiw is the Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god * Tîwaz, or Týr in Norse, a god of war and law.

* Týr, as the Old English name for the Sky-God of Norse ( Germanic ) Mythology

In 2003, Vratyas returned to the studio with three other musicians and close friends to record Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty ( Old Norse, " And Name Twice Týr ").

Tewin is known to have been settled by the Angles in 449 AD ; the name being a derivative of the Old English words for the Norse god Týr (“ Tiw ”) and meadow (“ Ing ”).

The Irish word derives from Old Irish, which referred to a wooden structure or vessel, stemming from crann, which means " tree ", plus a diminutive ending — literally " young tree ".

A draugr, draug or ( Icelandic ) draugur ( original Old Norse plural draugar, as used here, not " draugrs "), or draugen ( Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, meaning " the draug "), also known as aptrganga (" afturgöngur " in modern Icelandic ) ( literally " after-walker ", or " one who walks after death ") is an undead creature from Norse mythology, a subset of Germanic mythology.

The Book of Ecclesiastes (; Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστής ), originally called Qoheleth (, literally, " Preacher ") in Hebrew, is a book of the Tanakh's Ketuvim and the Old Testament.

Those dialects came to be known as Englisc ( literally " Anglish "), the language today referred to as Anglo-Saxon or Old English ( the language of the poem Beowulf ).

The term midwife is derived from, literally " with-woman ", i. e. " the woman with ( the mother at birth ), the woman assisting " ( in Middle English and Old English, mid

Midgard ( an anglicised form of Old Norse ; Old English, Old High German, Gothic Midjun-gards ; literally " middle enclosure ") is the name for the world ( in the sense of oikoumene ) inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology, and specifically one of the Nine Worlds and in Norse mythology.

In early Germanic cosmology, the term stands alongside world ( Old English weorold, Old Saxon werold, Old High German weralt, Old Frisian warld and Old Norse verǫld ), from a Common Germanic compound * wira-alđiz literally the " age of men ".

The word nation came to English from the Old French word nacion, which in turn originates from the Latin word natio () literally meaning " that which has been born ".

*, literally " Old Shinto ", is a reconstructed " Shinto from before the time of Buddhism ", today based on Ainu religion and Ryukyuan practices.

Verðandi is literally the present tense of the Old Norse verb " verða ", " to become ", and is commonly translated as " in the making " or " that which is happening / becoming "; it is related to the Dutch word worden and the German word werden, both meaning " to become ".

The name Gaul is sometimes erroneously linked to the ethnic name Gael, which is derived from Old Irish Goidel ( borrowed, in turn, in the 7th century AD from Primitive Welsh Guoidel-spelled Gwyddel in Middle Welsh and Modern Welsh-likely derived from a Brittonic root * Wēdelos meaning literally " forest person, wild man "); the names are, thus, unrelated.

Just to the north of " Kato Plateia " lie the " Palaia Anaktora " ( Παλαιά Ανάκτορα: literally " Old Palaces "): a large complex of buildings of Roman architectural style used in the past to house the King of Greece, and prior to that the British Governors of the island.

Window replaced the Old English ‘ eagþyrl ’, which literally means ‘ eye-hole ,’ and ‘ eagduru ’ ‘ eye-door ’.

The English noun Monday derived sometime before 1200 from monedæi, which itself developed from Old English ( around 1000 ) mōnandæg and mōndæg ( literally meaning " moon's day "), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian mōnadeig, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch mānendach ( modern Dutch Maandag ), Old High German mānetag ( modern German Montag ), and Old Norse mánadagr ( Swedish and Norwegian nynorsk måndag, Icelandic mánudagur.

Old Order, acted and atonally sung by Grunnfeu Arapacis, the lovely Serbantian import, then entered and delivered the well-known invocation to the god Phineoppus, whereupon the stage is quite unexpectedly visited by a company of wandering Gorshek priests, symbolizing Love, Lust, Prudence and General Motors, respectively.

Bilskirnir ( Old Norse " lightning-crack ") is the hall of the god Thor in Norse mythology.

The Behistun Inscription ( also Bistun or Bisutun, Modern Persian: بیستون < Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning " the place of god ") is a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran.

In Norse mythology, Draupnir ( Old Norse " the dripper ") is a gold ring possessed by the god Odin with the ability to multiply itself: Every ninth night eight new rings ' drip ' from Draupnir, each one of the same size and weight as the original.

The former was díkaios, severely just, the latter agathós, or loving-kind ; the former was the " god of this world " (), the God of the Old Testament, the latter the true God of the New Testament.

Over the course of the Old Kingdom ( c. 2686 – 2181 BC ), however, he came to be more closely associated with the daily rebirth of the sun god Ra and with the underworld ruler Osiris as those deities grew more important.

Forseti ( Old Norse " the presiding one ," actually " president " in Modern Icelandic and Faroese ) is an Æsir god of justice and reconciliation in Norse mythology.

A traditional figure in English folklore, Father Christmas is identified with the old belief in the Old English god Woden.

In Norse mythology, Geri and Freki ( Old Norse, both meaning " the ravenous " or " greedy one ") are two wolves which are said to accompany the god Odin.

The word is from Old English godsibb, from god and sibb, the term for the godparents of one's child or the parents of one's godchild, generally very close friends.

In Norse mythology, Huginn ( from Old Norse " thought ") and Muninn ( Old Norse " memory " or " mind ") are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring the god Odin information.

Nevertheless, as recorded in the Tanakh (" Old Testament " Bible ), in defiance of the Torah's teachings, the patron god YHWH was frequently worshipped in conjunction with other gods such as Baal, Asherah, and El.

The name Mithras ( Latin, equivalent to Greek " Μίθρας ",) is a form of Mithra, the name of an Old Persian god.

Additionally, in Old Icelandic translations of Classical mythology the Roman god Saturn's name is glossed as " Njörðr.

* Ōs, in Old English denoting a god in Anglo-Saxon paganism

The play's king ( never seen ) is only marginally related to the " Old Man of the Sea " and should not be confused with the sea god Proteus.

Another fragmentary example of a " donation stele ", in which the Old Kingdom pharaoh Pepi II Neferkare | Pepi II grants tax immunity to the priests of the temple of Min ( god ) | Min

In Norse mythology, Skírnir ( Old Norse " bright one ") is the god Freyr's messenger and vassal.

Old English Tīw, Old High German Zīo ), which continues Proto-Indo-European * " celestial being, god " ( cf.