The god Heimdallr stands before the rainbow bridge while blowing a horn ( 1905 ) by Emil Doepler.

According to the Prose Edda, the bridge ends in heaven at Himinbjörg, the residence of the god Heimdallr, who guards it from the jötnar.

The Scandinavian god Heimdallr performs an analogous function: he is born first and will die last.

In Norse mythology, Heimdallr is a god who possesses the resounding horn Gjallarhorn, owns the golden-maned horse Gulltoppr, has gold teeth, and is the son of Nine Mothers.

On the inscription, the god Heimdallr is mentioned alongside the god Odin and Þjálfi, a name of one of the god Thor's servants.

Regarding the inscription reading, John Hines of Cardiff University comments that there is " quite an essay to be written over the uncertainties of translation and identification here ; what are clear, and very important, are the names of two of the Norse gods on the side, Odin and Heimdallr, while Þjalfi ( masculine, not the feminine in-a ) is the recorded name of a servant of the god Thor.

With the onset of Ragnarök, Loki is foretold to slip free from his bonds and to fight against the gods among the forces of the jötnar, at which time he will encounter the god Heimdallr and the two will slay each other.

At the thing, the god Heimdallr puts forth the suggestion that, in place of Freyja, Thor should be dressed as the bride, complete with jewels, women's clothing down to his knees, a bridal head-dress, and the necklace Brísingamen.

Image: Heimdallr and valkyries by Frølich. jpg | A depiction of valkyries encountering the god Heimdallr as they carry a dead man to Valhalla ( 1906 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

The poem Þrymskviða describes that the god Heimdallr possesses foreknowledge, " as the Vanir also can.

After Loki has an exchange with the god Heimdallr, Skaði interjects.

An illustration of valkyries encountering the god Heimdallr as they carry a dead man to Valhalla ( 1906 ) by Lorenz Frølich

" Stanza 46 describes that, in reference to Ragnarök, the " sons " of Mím are at play while " fate burns " ( though no further information about these " sons " has survived ), that the god Heimdallr blows the Gjallarhorn, and that Mímir's decapitated head gives counsel to Odin.

In Norse Mythology, the Nine Mothers of Heimdallr are nine sisters who gave birth to the god Heimdallr.

In Gylfaginning, Heimdallr is introduced in chapter 25, where the enthroned figure of High tells the disguised mythical king Gangleri details about the god.

After the god Heimdallr awakens all the gods by blowing his horn Gjallarhorn, they will assemble at a thing, Odin will ride to the well Mímisbrunnr and consult Mímir on behalf of himself and his people, the world tree Yggdrasil will shake, and then the Æsir and the einherjar will don their war gear.

An illustration of valkyries encountering the god Heimdallr as they carry a dead man to Valhalla ( 1906 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

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

Nonetheless he is inferior to sovereign god Oðinn: the Minor Völuspá defines his relationship to Oðinn almost with the same terms as which Varro defines that of Janus, god of the prima to Jupiter, god of the summa: Heimdallr is born as the firstborn ( primigenius, var einn borinn í árdaga ), Oðinn is born as the greatest ( maximus, var einn borinn öllum meiri ).

His comment on Numbers 23: 19 has a still more polemical tone: “ God is not a man that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent ; < font face =" times new roman " size = 3 > if a man says: ‘ I am a god ’ he is a liar ; if he says: ‘ I am a son of man ’ he will have cause to regret it ; and if he says, ‘ I will go up to heaven ’ he has said but will not keep his word ” last phrase is borrowed from B ' midbar 23: 19 ( Yer.

Grimm says that Hel is an example of a " half-goddess ;" " one who cannot be shown to be either wife or daughter of a god, and who stands in a dependent relation to higher divinities " and that " half-goddesses " stand higher than " half-gods " in Germanic mythology.

Njörðr ( Freyja and Freyr's father ) says that it is harmless for a woman to have a lover or " someone else " beside her husband, and that what is surprising is a " pervert god coming here who has borne children.

In other words, Nyaya says that the polytheist would have to give elaborate proofs for the existence and origin of his several celestial spirits, none of which would be logical, and that it is more logical to assume one eternal, omniscient god.

" Davidson says that while the creature may vary, the horse is fairly common " in the lands where horses are in general use, and Sleipnir's ability to bear the god through the air is typical of the shaman's steed " and cites an example from a study of shamanism by Mircea Eliade of an eight-legged foal from a story of a Buryat shaman.

Human beings are troubled, he says, with the question of theodicy – the question of how the extraordinary power of a divine god may be reconciled with the imperfection of the world that he has created and rules over.

The god Bragi asks where a thundering sound is coming from, and says that the benches of Valhalla are creaking — as if the god Baldr had returned to Valhalla — and that it sounds like the movement of a thousand.

The Bible describes Yahweh as the god who delivered Israel from Egypt and gave the Ten Commandments and says that Yahweh revealed himself to Israel as the who would not permit his people to make idols or worship other gods " I am Yahweh, that is My name ; I will not give My glory to another, or My praise to idols.

In the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva ( a shamanic seeress ) reciting the poem to the god Odin says that she remembers far back to " early times ", being raised by jötnar, recalls nine worlds and " nine wood-ogresses " ( Old Norse nío ídiðiur ), and when Yggdrasil was a seed (" glorious tree of good measure, under the ground ").

The DVD commentary for " Amok Time " says that TOS writer D. C. Fontana named the Vulcan god of death " Shariel ", a bust of whom is seen in Spock's quarters.

High says that during the Æsir – Vanir War, the Vanir sent Njörðr as a hostage to the Æsir, and the Æsir sent to the Vanir the god Hœnir.

Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson says that it has been suggested that the figures are partaking in a dance, and that they may have been connected with weddings and linked to the Vanir, representing the notion of a divine marriage, such as in the Poetic Edda poem Skírnismál ; the coming together of the Vanir god Freyr and his love, Gerðr.

The god Bragi asks where a thundering sound is coming from, and says that the benches of Valhalla are creaking — as if the god Baldr had returned to Valhalla — and that it sounds like the movement of a thousand.

" Davidson says that it appears that from " early times " the Germanic peoples " believed in fierce female spirits doing the command of the war god, stirring up disorder, taking part in battle, seizing and perhaps devouring the slain.

The prose prologue to the poem says that the god Freyr, the son of Njörðr, sits in Odin's throne, Hliðskjálf and looked over all the worlds.

Pindar says that Diomedes became a minor god in southern Italy or the Adriatic.

Servius says that Consus is the god of councils.

William Warde Fowler says these priests should have been concerned with lightningbolts, bidental being both the technical term for the puteal, the hole resembling a well left by strikes onto the ground and for the victims used to placate the god and purify the site.

The god Bragi asks where a thundering sound is coming from, and says that the benches of Valhalla are creaking — as if the god Baldr had returned to Valhalla — and that it sounds like the movement of a thousand.

In Norse mythology, earthquakes were explained as the violent struggling of the god Loki.

When Loki, god of mischief and strife, murdered Baldr, god of beauty and light, he was punished by being bound in a cave with a poisonous serpent placed above his head dripping venom.

In both the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, Fenrir is the father of the wolves Sköll and Hati Hróðvitnisson, is a son of Loki, and is foretold to kill the god Odin during the events of Ragnarök, but will in turn be killed by Odin's son Víðarr.

During his time with the team, the Asgardian trickster god Loki captures Bobby, hoping to use him to gain control over the Frost Giants.

The Asgardian god Loki amplified Bobby's powers to a dangerous level, leaving him unable to make contact with any organic thing for fear of killing it.

In Norse mythology, Loki or Loptr is a god or jötunn ( or both ).

The skaldic god Bragi is the first to respond to Loki by telling him that Loki will not have a seat and place assigned to him by the gods at the feast, for the gods know what men they should invite.

The god Tyr defends Freyr, to which Loki replies that Tyr should be silent, for Tyr cannot " deal straight with people ," and points out that it was Loki's son, the wolf Fenrir, who tore Tyr's hand off.

Triskaidekaphobia may have also affected the Vikings — it is believed that Loki in the Norse pantheon was the 13th god — more specifically, Loki was believed to have engineered the murder of Balder, and was the 13th guest to arrive at the funeral.

Sætere has been identified as either a god associated with the harvest of possible Slav origin, or alternately Sætere could be another name for Loki a complex deity associated with both good and evil.

Scholars have theorized a potential connection between Skaði and the god Ullr ( who is also associated with skiing and appears most frequently in place names in Sweden ), a particular relationship with the jötunn Loki, and that Scandinavia may be related to the name Skaði ( potentially meaning " Skaði's island ") or the name may be connected to an Old Norse noun meaning " harm ".

In the 13th century Prose Edda, due to the scheming of Loki, the god Baldr is killed by his brother, the blind god Höðr, by way of a mistletoe projectile, despite the attempts of Baldr's mother, the goddess Frigg, to have all living things and inanimate objects swear an oath not to hurt Baldr after Baldr had troubling dreams of his death.

The character has been compared to other trickster figures, such as the Irish hero Bricriu Nemthenga and the Norse god Loki.

The mischievous god Loki tricked Andvari into giving him the Andvaranaut.

In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (, pronounced ), often written Jormungand, or Jörmungand and also known as the Midgard Serpent (), or World Serpent, is a sea serpent, the middle child of the giantess Angrboða and the god Loki.

According to the Prose Edda, Kvasir was instrumental in the capture and binding of Loki, and an euhemerized account of the god appears in Heimskringla, where he is attested as the wisest among the Vanir.

Kvasir is mentioned a single time in Gylfaginning ; in chapter 50, where the enthroned figure of High tells Gangleri ( Gylfi in disguise ) of how Loki was caught by the gods after being responsible for the murder of the god Baldr.