He spoke of a notation made by Snorri Sturluson, a 13th-century historian-mythographer in Ynglinga Saga which relates that " Odin ( a Scandinavian god who was one of the kings ) came to the North with his people from a country called Aser.

They include the Indian goddess Aditi who is called two faced as is the one who starts and concludes ceremonies, and Scandinavian god Heimdallr.

The so-called British and Scandinavian cult-historical schools maintained that the king personified a god and stood at the center of the national or tribal religion.

In his role as a trickster god, he is in some ways similar to both Greek Hermes and Scandinavian Loki, and like them, he was connected with magic.

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

But the Eyrbyggja saga from the Icelandic Scandinavian influence tradition speak of human sacrifices in honor of the Scandinavian god Thor.

However the internal tension of the character led to a duplication in Scandinavian religion: Frigg resulted into a merely sovereign goddess, the spouse of wizard god Óðinn, while from the name of Freyr, typical god of the third function, was extracted a second character, Freyja, confined as a Vani to the sphere of pleasure and wealth.

Sosruko is a powerful but devious man who is the smallest of the Narts ; as a character, he is sometimes cast in the light of the trickster god, comparable to the Scandinavian Loki ( who finds a closer parallel in the Nart Syrdon however ), Georgian Amirani, or the Ancient Greek Prometheus.

In theme and function they may originate from Scandinavian and Germanic traditions of storytelling that can be seen in poems such as Beowulf.

* The skalds performed a similar function in Scandinavian societies.

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

This view is based partly on Old English and Danish traditions regarding persons and events of the 4th century, and partly on the fact that striking affinities to the cult of Nerthus as described by Tacitus are to be found in pre-Christian Scandinavian, especially Swedish and Danish, religion.

The conservation status of the species is good, except for the Scandinavian mainland population.

Today, his descendants can be found in many places outside of Afghanistan, such as in America, France, Germany, and even in Scandinavian countries such as Denmark and carry the surname of Ziyaee, which is itself a derivative of the King's title.

Abettor ( from to abet, Old French abeter, à and beter, to bait, urge dogs upon any one ; this word is probably of Scandinavian origin, meaning to cause to bite ), is a legal term implying one who instigates, encourages or assists another to commit an offence.

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.

It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands.

The word " Bluetooth " is an anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand / Blåtann, the epithet of the tenth-century king Harald I of Denmark and parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom.

This is currently one of the only Scandinavian analogues to receive a general consensus of potential connection.

Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.

The reason for this is that although the Scandinavian peninsula is attached to Continental Europe by Karelia etc., it is usually reached by sea, not by land ( which would require travelling north as far as Tornio at the 66th parallel north ).

While Scandinavian sagas describe events in 9th century Britain, their value as sources of historical narrative, rather than documents of social history, is disputed.

While Scandinavian sagas describe events in 10th-century Britain, their value as sources of historical narrative, rather than documents of social history, is disputed.

The distribution of stød in the lexicon is clearly related to the distribution of the common Scandinavian tonal word accents found in most dialects of Norwegian and Swedish, including the national standard languages.

In Scandinavian folklore, the creature is said to possess a distinctly human form, with the exception that its head is composed entirely of seaweed.

Historically the å has developed from a ligature by writing a small a on top of the letter a ; if an å character is unavailable, some Scandinavian languages allow the substitution of a doubled a.

The Flag of Denmark ( ) is red with a white Scandinavian cross that extends to the edges of the flag ; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side.

In Dutch, Easter is known as Pasen and in the Scandinavian languages Easter is known as påske ( Danish and Norwegian ), påsk ( Swedish ), páskar ( Icelandic ) and páskir ( Faeroese ).

Poul Anderson was born on November 25, 1926, in Bristol, Pennsylvania, of Scandinavian parents.

Anyanka ' Anya Jenkins ' was born as Aud in the 9th century in Sjornjost, a small Scandinavian village.

He was probably born at Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, the son of John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt, and Catherine of Pomerania, the daughter of Wartislaw VII, Duke of Pomerania in Pomerania-Stolp, and Catherine of Pomerania, sister of the Scandinavian king, Eric of Pomerania.

In the 19th-century tale of " Prince Lindworm " ( also " King Lindworm "), from Scandinavian folklore, a " half-man half-snake " lindworm is born, as one of twins, to a queen, who, in an effort to overcome her childless situation, has followed the advice of an old crone, who tells her to eat two onions.

Fitzgerald was born in Price, Utah, the son of an Irish Catholic father and a Scandinavian Mormon mother.

Jenny Eugenia Nyström ( born June 13 or June 15, 1854 in Kalmar, Sweden ; died January 17, 1946 in Stockholm ) was a painter and illustrator who is mainly known as the person who created the Swedish image of the jultomte on numerous Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the gnomes of Scandinavian folklore.

born in a Scandinavian colony in Minnesota, went to school in Indiana

Dearie was born on April 28, 1924, in East Durham, New York to a father of Irish-Scottish descent and a mother of Scandinavian descent.

Claim became reality for a brief reign: Henry II's son Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg ( 1318 – 79 ) married a kinswoman, a Scandinavian heiress Euphemia of Sweden and Norway ( born 1317 and died 1370 ).

Windsor was born Clara Viola Cronk ( nicknamed " Ola ") in 1892 to George Edwin and Rosella R. Fearing Cronk in Marvin, Phillips County, Kansas of Scandinavian heritage.

Princess Sibylla ( middle ) with her parents and siblings in 1918. Sibylla ( then Sibylle ) was born at Schloss Friedenstein on 18 January 1908 as the daughter of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein, a daughter of Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg and Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and descended from an older Scandinavian royal house.

Guðbrandur Vigfússon, known in English as Gudbrand Vigfusson, ( born 13 March 1827 ; died 31 January 1889 ) was one of the foremost Scandinavian scholars of the 19th century.

He was born in the city of Campinas to a family of Scandinavian immigrants.

John Qualen ( born Johan Mandt Kvalen, December 8, 1899 – September 12, 1987 ) was a Canadian-American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles.