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 ).

A change that separated Old East Norse ( Runic Swedish / Danish ) from Old West Norse was the change of the diphthong æi ( Old West Norse ei ) to the monophthong e, as in stæin to sten.

Moreover, the øy ( Old West Norse ey ) diphthong changed into ø as well, as in the Old Norse word for " island ".

Oe was always a rare diphthong in Classical Latin ; in Old Latin, oinos ( one ) regularly became unus.

Whereas Old English had the unvoiced fricative sounds,, ( as in thin ), and ( shin ), French influence helped to distinguish their voiced counterparts,, ( the ), and ( mirage ), and also contributed the diphthong ( boy ).

( That name is itself a borrowing of the Old English Eoforwic ; the Old English diphthong eo being cognate with the Norse diphthong jo, the Old English intervocalic f typically being pronounced softly as a modern v, and wic being the Old English version of the Norse vik.

The Old Norse letter á is retained, but has become a diphthong, pronounced in Icelandic and in Faroese.

** In word-initial position, some northern dialects also show a change from a falling to a rising diphthong ( > ) like Old Frisian.

* Old Dutch,, merge into a centralising diphthong, spelled < ie >.

* Likewise, Old Dutch ( from Proto-Germanic ) becomes a centralising diphthong, spelled < oe > or < ou >.

Likewise the diphthong ai in bain ( bone ) remained in Old Gutnish while it in Old West Norse became ei as in bein and in Old East Norse it became é ( bén ).

File: Ancien poste frontière au col du Pourtalet ( côté espagnol ). jpg | Old border post on the France-Spain border ( both countries now part of the Schengen Area )

The old Germanic diphthongs * ai and * au become ē / ā and ā, respectively, in Old Frisian, as in ēn / ān (" one ") from Proto-Germanic * ainaz, and brād from * braudaN.

* Old subdivision maps: http :// www. gosford. nsw. gov. au / library / local_history / subdivision / ourimbah. html

Atkins ' first live show with PiL was recorded and released as a live album Paris au Printemps and his first year with the band included appearances on The John Peel Sessions for the BBC, American Bandstand and the BBC's live Old Grey Whistle Test.

The Germanic diphthongs ai, au consistently develop into long vowels ē, ō, whereas in Old High German they appear either as ei, ou or ē, ō depending on the following consonant.

* Cattle Kings of Old Australia quadrant. org. au

) manuscript: Leiden, University Library, Ms. Letterkunde 191-1 Ferguut, a translation / adaptation of the Old French Arthurian romance Le chevalier au biel Escu, better known as the Roman de Fergus

Until 1945, Bulgarian orthography did not reveal this alternation and used the original Old Slavic Cyrillic letter yat (), which was commonly called двойно е ( dvoyno e ) at the time, to express the historical yat vowel or at least root vowels displaying the ya – e alternation.

There have been attempts at categorizing this fictional group of beings, and Phillip A. Schreffler argues that by carefully scrutinizing Lovecraft's writings a workable framework emerges that outlines the entire " pantheon " – from the unreachable " Outer Ones " ( e. g. Azathoth, who apparently occupies the centre of the universe ) and " Great Old Ones " ( e. g. Cthulhu, imprisoned on Earth in the sunken city of R ' lyeh ) to the lesser castes ( the lowly slave shoggoths and the Mi-go ).

It survives in this fixed form from the days of Old English ( having undergone, however, phonetic changes with the rest of the language ), in which it was constructed as "" + " me " ( the dative case of the personal pronoun ) + " thinks " ( i. e., " seems ", < Old English thyncan, " to seem ", a verb closely related to the verb thencan, " to think ", but distinct from it in Old English ; later it merged with " think " and lost this meaning ).

In Orthodox Christianity, deuterocanonical means that a book is part of the corpus of the Old Testament ( i. e. is read during the services ) but has secondary authority.

Its format is like that of modern travel dictionaries ; i. e., it may have been used by German speakers to communicate with Old Prussians, but the specific circumstances are only speculative.

Sanskrit priyā " beloved ") and was known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time: e. g. Friggja in Sweden, Frīg ( genitive Frīge ) in Old English, and Fricka in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

The generic * þiuda-" people " occurs in many personal names such as Thiud-reks and also in the ethnonym of the Swedes from a cognate of Old English Sweo-ðēod and Old Norse: Sui-þióð ( see e. g. Sö Fv1948 ; 289 ).

), while other common descriptors refer to classic styles that are culturally recognized, but not legally defined ( e. g., sloe gin, Wacholder and Old Tom gin ).

" ( KJV ) This may be a reference to the kind of harp played, e. g., by David during Old Testament times.

Old English kennings are all of the simple type, possessing just two elements, e. g. for “ sea ”: seġl-rād “ sail-road ” ( Beowulf 1429 b ), swan-rād “ swan-road ” ( Beowulf 200 a ), bæð-weġ “ bath-way ” ( Andreas 513 a ), hron-rād “ whale-road ” ( Beowulf 10 ), hwæl-weġ “ whale-way ” ( The Seafarer 63 a ).

Old English cnihthād (" knighthood ") had the meaning of adolescence ( i. e. the period between childhood and manhood ) by 1300.

The Libro de los Juegos, (" Book of games "), or Libro de acedrex, dados e tablas, (" Book of chess, dice and tables ", in Old Spanish ) was commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile, Galicia and León and completed in his scriptorium in Toledo in 1283, is an exemplary piece of Alfonso ’ s medieval literary legacy.

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

This bridge is known as Pont Vieux ( i. e. " Old Bridge ").

Examples of the Western text are found in Codex Bezae, Codex Claromontanus, Codex Washingtonianus, the Old Latin ( i. e., Latin translations made prior to the Vulgate ), as well as in quotations by Marcion, Tatian, Irenaeus, Tertullian and Cyprian.

In the 19th century, manuscript evidence was discovered for an " Old Syriac " version of the four distinct ( i. e., not harmonized ) gospels.

No Old Syriac manuscripts of other portions of the New Testament survive, though Old Syriac readings, e. g. from the Pauline Epistles, can be discerned in citations made by Eastern fathers and in later Syriac versions.