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.

There are many parallels of language between Joel and other Old Testament prophets.

Scholarly theories have been proposed about Hel's potential connections to figures appearing in the 11th century Old English Gospel of Nicodemus and Old Norse Bartholomeus saga postola, potential Indo-European parallels to Bhavani, Kali, and Mahakali, and her origins.

First, there are a number of parallels between the morphology of Old Chinese and the modern Bodic languages.

The Serbian form has parallels in virtually all Slavic languages: Bulgarian and Macedonian вампир ( vampir ), Croatian vampir, Czech and Slovak upír, Polish wąpierz, and ( perhaps East Slavic-influenced ) upiór, Ukrainian упир ( upyr < nowiki ></ nowiki >), Russian упырь ( upyr < nowiki >'</ nowiki >), Belarusian упыр ( upyr ), from Old East Slavic упирь ( upir < nowiki >'</ nowiki >).

The name Weser parallels the names of other rivers such as the Wear in England and the Vistula in Poland, all of which are ultimately derived from the root * weis-" to flow ", which gave Old English / Old Frisian wāse " mud, ooze ", Old Norse veisa " slime, stagnant pool ", Dutch waas " lawn ", Old Saxon waso " wet ground, mire ", and Old High German wasal " rain ".

Simek says that Snorri ’ s description is further proven faithful by way of the ( above mentioned ) 10th century skaldic kenning “ Kvasir ’ s blood ” ( Old Norse Kvasis dreya ), and that strong parallels exist between the Old Norse tale of the theft of the Mead of Poetry by Odin ( in the form of an eagle ) and the Sanskrit tale of the theft of Soma — beverage of the gods — by the god Indra ( or an eagle ), and that these parallels point to a common Proto-Indo-European basis.

It has been used by scholars of the Old Testament to clarify Biblical Hebrew texts and has revealed ways in which ancient Israelite culture finds parallels in the neighboring cultures.

Melito presented elaborate parallels between the Old Testament or Old Covenant, which he likened to the form or mold, and the New Testament or New Covenant, which he likened to the truth that broke the mold, in a series of Eklogai, six books of extracts from the Law and the Prophets presaging Christ and the Christian faith.

New York State Route 417 ( Old State Road ) parallels the Expressway, and New York State Route 16 passes through the southeast corner of the town.

However, they are of a lower quality and are much simpler than their Old Kingdom parallels.

In some South Florida cities, Dixie Highway ( or sometimes Old Dixie Highway ) parallels " Federal Highway " ( U. S. Route 1 ), sometimes just a block away.

As a masculine name, Raven parallels the Old Norse Hrafn, The Old Frankish name for a raven was Chram.

On the other side of the forestry is Old Richburg Road, which parallels Route 11.

It is sometimes known by the metonym The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street or simply The Old Lady, a name taken from the legend of Sarah Whitehead, whose ghost is said to haunt the bank's garden.

History and legend tell of the ancient trade routes known as the Amber Road leading from the Old Prussian settlements of Kaup ( in Sambia ) and Truso ( near Elbląg-German: Elbing, near the mouth of the Vistula ) southwards to the Black and Adriatic seas.

So went the tale of the " Old Man in the Mountain ", assembled by Marco Polo and accepted by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, an 18th century Austrian orientalist writer responsible for much of the spread of this legend.

Railroading has also been a popular theme, with ballads such as " Wreck of the Old 97 " and " Nine Pound Hammer " ( from the legend of John Henry ) being exemplary.

The cathedral is built on a gravel bed with unusually shallow foundations of upon wooden faggots: the site is supposed to have been selected by shooting an arrow from Old Sarum, although this can only be legend as the distance is over.

According to legend the Polish voivode Piotr Włostowic of Dunin ( 1080 – 1153 ) had a fieldstone church built on the hill in the west of Lubin, where about 1230 a castellany and a village arose that until today is called the Old Town ().

* Gogol wrote an ironic and bittersweet reworking of the legend in his 1835 novella The Old World Landowners.

The legend of the naming of Bird-in-Hand concerns the time when the Old Philadelphia Pike was surveyed between Lancaster and Philadelphia.

In the late 1880s, the county Sheriff was Old West gunfighter legend Commodore Perry Owens.

Old legend says Tuareg once lived in grottoes, akazam, and then they lived in foliage beds made on the top acacia trees, tasagesaget, to avoid numerous wild animal during old times and even to this day to escape from mosquitoes.

According to legend, Theodore Roosevelt got his nickname " Old Four Eyes " in Wibaux, ( Mingusville, at the time ) shortly after moving to the badlands from New York City.

Revolutionary legend Molly Pitcher died in the borough in 1832, and her body lies buried in the Old Graveyard.

Eastland is known for the legend of " Old Rip ", a horned toad that lived many years sealed in the cornerstone of the previous Eastland courthouse built in 1897.

They claimed Old John Gomez, a protagonist in the Gasparilla legend from Florida folklore, had been one of their members.

The Old Ship Inn has a painted legend along the front, saying that the exterior timbers were salvaged from an old ship.

* Old wives ' tale, a wisdom much like an urban legend, supposedly passed down by old wives to a younger generation

A coin minted at York in the early 940s, the obverse ( right ) face shows a triquetra and the legend ANLAF CVNVNCC ( King Anlaf, the Old English language | Old English form of Amlaíb / Óláfr ), the reverse ( left ) face shows a banner, perhaps the Raven banner and the name of the moneyer, Ascolf.

* Old Market square with Donkey ‘ s Fountain ( 1906 / 13 ), referring to a local legend

The legendary kings of Denmark are the predecessors of Gorm the Old, half history and half legend.

So went the tale of the “ Old Man in the Mountain ”, assembled by Marco Polo and accepted by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall ( 1774 – 1856 ), a prominent orientalist writer responsible for much of the spread of this legend.

Following this, he starred in It's The Old Army Game ( 1926 ) which featured his friend Louise Brooks, later to become a screen legend for her role in G. W. Pabst's Pandora's Box in Germany.

The Pistrucci reverse was used again in 1893, when the obverse used the " Old Head " of the queen, with the legend, and the edge is again milled.